From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005101401.52182.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100504220500.7695cd66.takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
On Monday 10 May 2010, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> (2010/05/06 22:38), Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> >> There was a suggestion to propose set_le_bit_user() kind of macros.
> >> But what I thought was these have a constraint you two explained and seemed to be
> >> a little bit specific to some area, like KVM.
> >>
> >> So I decided to propose just the offset calculation macro.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand how this macro is going to be used though.
> > If you are just using this in kernel space, that's fine, please go for
> > it.
>
> Yes, I'm just using in kernel space: qemu has its own endian related helpers.
>
> So if you allow us to place this macro in asm-generic/bitops/* it will help us.
No problem at all then. Thanks for the explanation.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 13:05 [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-04 15:03 ` [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 16:08 ` [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit Avi Kivity
2010-05-05 2:59 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-06 13:38 ` [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-10 11:46 ` [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit Takuya Yoshikawa
2010-05-10 12:01 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-10 12:01 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-05-10 12:09 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
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