On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 09:05:56AM -0800, Tanzir Hasan wrote: > > While REPEAT_BYTE has a manageable number of users, upper_* and > > lower_* have significantly more; I worry about moving those causing > > regressions. We can move them, but such changes would need > > significantly more soak time than this series IMO. Tanzir is also > > working on statistical analysis; I suspect if he analyzes > > include/linux/kernel.h, he can comment on whether the usage of > > REPEAT_BYTE is correlated with the usage of upper_* and lower_* in > > order to inform whether they should be grouped together or not. > > Removing REPEAT_BYTE is manageable and I have already moved it.
Removing? You mean switching to something else in all those headers? > I will > be pushing a patch that moves just that into another file called wordpart.h. > There are too many instances of the other functions for it to make sense to > remove them all in this patch. Okay, let's see the proposal (patch) code then! -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
