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

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Date:	Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:50:45 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...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

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.

Andreas.

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