From f7589f28d7dd4586b4e90ac3b2a180409669053a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 03:05:15 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Define BITS_PER_BYTE

This can make the intent behind some arithmetic expressions clearer.

Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 include/linux/types.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 21b9ce80364..54ae2d59e71 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 	(((bits)+BITS_PER_LONG-1)/BITS_PER_LONG)
 #define DECLARE_BITMAP(name,bits) \
 	unsigned long name[BITS_TO_LONGS(bits)]
+
+#define BITS_PER_BYTE 8
 #endif
 
 #include <linux/posix_types.h>
-- 
2.11.4.GIT