From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>,
Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>, Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/24] bitops: introduce little-endian bitops for most architectures
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:18:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D33608F.6060908@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1295183333-13802-10-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
On 01/16/2011 05:08 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Introduce little-endian bit operations to the architectures which do not
> have native little-endian bit operations. (alpha, avr32, blackfin, cris,
> frv, h8300, ia64, m32r, mips, mn10300, parisc, sh, sparc, tile, x86,
> xtensa)
>
> These architectures can just include generic implementation
> (asm-generic/bitops/le.h).
>
ACK on the patch, but the description is confusing for actual
littleendian architectures -- the native bit operations on x86, for
example, are in fact littleendian (and as such <asm-generic/bitops/le.h>
just wraps the existing native bitops.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-16 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 13:08 [PATCH v4 00/24] Introduce little endian bitops Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 01/24] bitops: merge little and big endian definisions in asm-generic/bitops/le.h Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 02/24] asm-generic: rename generic little-endian bitops functions Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 03/24] powerpc: introduce little-endian bitops Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 04/24] s390: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 05/24] arm: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 17:51 ` Russell King
2011-01-17 2:36 ` Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 06/24] m68k: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 07/24] bitops: introduce CONFIG_GENERIC_FIND_BIT_LE Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 08/24] m68knommu: introduce little-endian bitops Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 09/24] bitops: introduce little-endian bitops for most architectures Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-01-17 10:01 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 10/24] rds: stop including asm-generic/bitops/le.h Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 11/24] kvm: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 12/24] asm-generic: use little-endian bitops Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 13/24] ext3: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 14/24] ext4: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 15/24] ocfs2: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 16/24] nilfs2: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 17/24] reiserfs: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 18/24] udf: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 19/24] ufs: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 20/24] md: use little-endian bit operations Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 21/24] dm: " Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 22/24] bitops: remove ext2 non-atomic bitops from asm/bitops.h Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 23/24] m68k: remove inline asm from minix_find_first_zero_bit Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 24/24] bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h Akinobu Mita
2011-01-16 18:57 ` [PATCH v4 00/24] Introduce little endian bitops Linus Torvalds
2011-01-17 2:37 ` Akinobu Mita
2011-01-17 2:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-17 9:34 ` Russell King
2011-01-18 9:49 ` Akinobu Mita
2011-01-18 9:49 ` Akinobu Mita
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