linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/22] arm: introduce little endian bitops

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Message-ID: <20101018092650.GC26183@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:26:50 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
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>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/22] arm: introduce little endian bitops

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:46:03PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Introduce little endian bit operations by renaming native ext2 bit
> operations. The ext2 bit operations are kept by using little endian
> bit operations until the conversions are finished.

Can you explain why we need another level of indirection rather than
using asm-generic/bitops/le.h, asm-generic/bitops/minix.h and
asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h ?
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