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SubjectRE: [PATCH 09/17] Tools: hv: Represent the ipv6 mask using CIDR notation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@alien8.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:01 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org;
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization@lists.osdl.org; olaf@aepfle.de;
> apw@canonical.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org; ben@decadent.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] Tools: hv: Represent the ipv6 mask using CIDR
> notation
>
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:01:33AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Transform ipv6 subnet information to CIDR notation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> > ---
> > tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 45
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
> > index 2c24ebf..007e698 100644
> > --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
> > +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
> > @@ -491,6 +491,15 @@ done:
> > return;
> > }
> >
> > +static unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int *w)
> > +{
> > + unsigned int res = *w - ((*w >> 1) & 0x55555555);
> > + res = (res & 0x33333333) + ((res >> 2) & 0x33333333);
> > + res = (res + (res >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F;
> > + res = res + (res >> 8);
> > + return (res + (res >> 16)) & 0x000000FF;
> > +}
>
> What's wrong with the hweight32 version we have already in
> <include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h> which you can include by
> simply by including <asm-generic/bitops.h>?

Boris,

This code is a user-level daemon that will be compiled outside of the kernel.
I did not want to include Kernel header files for this one function and deal with
all the dependencies that will have to be dealt with.

Regards,

K. Y

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