From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080601045508.GA1810@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080531223419.GA30769@solarflare.com>
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:34:20PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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
> <asm-generic/bitops/le.h> but without the "generic_" prefix.
Good idea. But please also kill the ext2_ and minix_ prefixed aliases
while you're at it so that everyone uses the le_ prefixed ones.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-01 4:55 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-31 22:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops Ben Hutchings
2008-05-31 22:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] Remove 'generic_' prefix from generic " Ben Hutchings
2008-05-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use <asm-generic/bitops/le.h> in <asm-powerpc/bitops.h> Ben Hutchings
2008-05-31 22:52 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-31 23:50 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-01 4:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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