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From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/24] Introduce little endian bitops
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:37:19 +0900
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2011/1/17 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This problem is not touched.
>
> So why not? The thing is supposed to be a cleanup, but it generates
> uglier code and more lines added than removed. Why should I pull
> something like that?

Changing *_bit_le() to take "void *" instead of "unsigned long *"
makes this patch series acceptable?
Or do we also need to change *_bit_le() to handle unaligned address
correctly?  (i.e. not only long aligned address but also byte aligned
address)