Re: ext4 compile error on m68k

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> Should be same  ext2_find_next_zero_bit except that it find the next
> set bit rather than the zero bit. The API is used to find the set bit
> in bitmap. To explain the little endian dependency, what we have is
> 
> 0	x	n
> [.......1.......]
> 
> Now we read this as (char *) and try to find the first set bit which
> in the above example is x. To speed up most of the architectures would
> like to consider it as an array of long. That implies that the value
> in the array should be considered as a little endian long, hence the
> *_le_bit.

This kind of documentation should be in the kernel tree somewhere.
And while we're at it all the routines should be renamed from extN_*
to *_le_bit because that describes what they do.
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