linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/22] bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h

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Date:	Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:35:47 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linux/m68k" <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/22] bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:50, Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Funny, m68k uses the little endian minix file system?
>>
>> Perhaps this was due to minix using the ext2 accessors? And ext2 being
>> switched from big to little endian ext2 on m68k, without anyone
>> noticing the impact
>> on minix?
>
> m68k has always used big-endian minixfs and the minix bitops were always
> independent of the ext2 ones.

Thanks for confirming!

Hence "[PATCH 21/22] m68k: convert minix bitops to use little endian
bitops" is not correct?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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