linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 05/24] arm: introduce little-endian bitops

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Date:	Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:51:09 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/24] arm: introduce little-endian bitops

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 ?

It's doing some stuff which needs to be done anyway (the casting to
unsigned long pointers for the ext2/minix find bit functions) which
otherwise will be duplicated in my patches.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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