From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755475AbYFAEzY (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751265AbYFAEzM (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:12 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:50345 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751157AbYFAEzL (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:11 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:08 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Ben Hutchings Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops Message-ID: <20080601045508.GA1810@infradead.org> References: <20080531223419.GA30769@solarflare.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080531223419.GA30769@solarflare.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > 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.