From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:26:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 04/22] arm: introduce little endian bitops In-Reply-To: <1287135981-17604-5-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> References: <1287135981-17604-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> <1287135981-17604-5-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20101018092650.GC26183@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:46:03PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote: > Introduce little endian bit operations by renaming native ext2 bit > operations. The ext2 bit operations are kept by using little endian > bit operations until the conversions are finished. Can you explain why we need another level of indirection rather than using asm-generic/bitops/le.h, asm-generic/bitops/minix.h and asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h ?