From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756200AbYEaWfL (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 18:35:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754576AbYEaWe7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 18:34:59 -0400 Received: from 82-69-137-158.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.137.158]:37725 "EHLO uklogin.uk.level5networks.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754564AbYEaWe6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 May 2008 18:34:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 23:34:20 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops Message-ID: <20080531223419.GA30769@solarflare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org All architectures already have little-endian bitops for use by file- systems that use little-endian allocation tables. Since these are more generally useful - Andrew Morton suggested we use them in the sfc driver - they should be exposed under consistent names. The following patch series does that, using the names from but without the "generic_" prefix. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.