linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] m68knommu: fix build error due to the lack of find_next_bit

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Message-ID: <BANLkTinkEHjrBW1GJSJhBnbgxXm5Vtw7BQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 May 2011 11:12:58 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	arnd@...db.de, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] m68knommu: fix build error due to the lack of find_next_bit_le()

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:11, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com> wrote:
> 2011/5/3, Greg Ungerer <gerg@...pgear.com>:
>> Hi Akinobu,
>>
>> On 27/04/11 23:20, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>>> m68knommu can't build ext4, udf, and ocfs2 due to the lack of
>>> find_next_bit_le().
>>>
>>> This implements find_next_bit_le() on m68knommu by duplicating the
>>> generic find_next_bit_le() in lib/find_next_bit.c.
>>
>> Wouldn't the m68k specific implementation of this in
>> arch/m68k/include/asm/bitops_mm.h be better?
>
> find_next_bit_le() in bitops_mm.h has a bug
> (Please see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/3/43) and it is not fixed
> in mainline yet. So I decided to use generic one for the safety.

Yeah, I still have to create a for-2.6.40 branch and add it there.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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