Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the luto-misc tree

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:29:37 +0200

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:24:36PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Seems ok, but I'll reinstate this:
> 
> #if BITS_PER_LONG != __BITS_PER_LONG
> #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
> #endif

Confuses me; why do we have two?

Why not then do:

#define BITS_PER_LONG __BITS_PER_LONG

and be done with it?