On Friday 15 October 2010, Akinobu Mita wrote: > > This patch series introduces little endian bit operations in asm/bitops.h > for all architectures and converts ext2 non-atomic and minix bit operation > to them. it enables to remove ext2 non-atomic and minix bit operations > from asm/bitops.h. The reason they should be removed from asm/bitops.h > is as follows: > > For ext2 non-atomic bit operations, they are used for little endian byte order > bitmap access by some filesystems and modules. But using ext2_*() functions on > a module other than ext2 filesystem makes someone feel strange. > > For minix bit operations, they are only used by minix filesystem and useless > by other modules. Because byte order of inode and block bitmap is defferent > on each architectures. Very nice work! I already replied on two issues that I think could be improved, everything else looks good. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
