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Date:	Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:36:09 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/24] arm: introduce little-endian bitops

2011/1/17 Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:08:34PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>> Introduce little-endian bit operations by renaming native ext2 bit
>> operations.  The ext2 bit operations are kept as wrapper macros using
>> little-endian bit operations to maintain bisectability until the
>> conversions are finished.
>
> This looks fine to me - is there any chance we can get this in to mainline
> so we can avoid conflicts between this and some patches I'm working on atm
> to fix the unsafe UP+SMP kernel combination with ARMs bitops ?

The le bitops is still unacceptable to mainline.
So please do the fixes without bothering about the conflict.
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