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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com>,
	Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
	Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@intel.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: Use div_s64 instead of do_div in iwl_mvm_debug_range_resp
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:52:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1tJcWkxBKMzshNyP5BmN0SaNWKZ6OHkjUv8YetT9nQaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdmCeHxiGPkXXzjwnTtgzEDDjYRE1QBdu7BHeuzCE4YtRA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 1:14 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 12:08 AM Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:

> One thing I'm curious about, is "why does do_div exist?" When should I
> use do_div vs div_u64 (not div_s64 as is used in this patch)?

I think do_div() is mostly historic, we've had it since the early days
when C compilers were not as good with inline functions. The various
other versions are regular functions, and I tend to prefer them for new
code, but do_div() is widely known and documented, so I have little
hope of it going away any time soon.

       Arnd

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-19 18:21 [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: Use div64_s64 instead of do_div in iwl_mvm_debug_range_resp Nathan Chancellor
2019-02-19 19:05 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-02-20  9:39   ` Luca Coelho
2019-02-20 10:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-20 17:56   ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-02-21  7:33     ` Luciano Coelho
2019-02-21  8:06 ` [PATCH v2] iwlwifi: mvm: Use div_s64 " Nathan Chancellor
2019-02-22  0:13   ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-02-22  7:45     ` Luciano Coelho
2019-02-22  8:52     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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