linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 20/22] bitops: remove ext2 non-atomic bitops from asm/bitops.h

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Date:	Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:56:58 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/22] bitops: remove ext2 non-atomic bitops from asm/bitops.h

2010/10/22 Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>:
> On 2010-10-21, at 08:41, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>> As the result of conversions, there are no users of ext2 non-atomic bit
>> operations except for ext2 file system itself.  Now we can put them
>> into architecture independent code in ext2 file system, and remove
>> from asm/bitops.h for all architectures.
>
> Presumably there will be a separate patch series to remove the atomic ext2 bitops?  I was going to suggest removing the ext2 comment in bitops.h, but I notice that there are still the atomic bitops left.

I wanted to remove them altogether, but it turns out that I need
more consideration (what is the better name? where should they move to?)
and I have already touched more files than I expected in this patch series.
So I decided to make it a pending question.
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