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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 09/24] bitops: introduce little-endian bitops for most
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:18:07 -0800
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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