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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix roundup_pow_of_two(1)
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > 1 is a power of two, therefore roundup_pow_of_two(1) should return 1. It does
> > in case the argument is a variable but in case it's a constant it behaves
> > wrong and returns 0. Probably nobody ever did it so this was never noticed.
> I'm not getting the problem.
> 2^0 = 1

Adrian,

that's of course true, but unrelated to the patch in question :)

You simply want roundup_pow_of_two(1) to be 1, and not 0. That's what the
patch does, and that's correct.

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Jiri Kosina
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