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From: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:08:20 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit()
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To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>, "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>, 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>, 'Akinobu Mita' <mita@miraclelinux.com>, Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:49:08PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Err, searching by anything other than bytes is useless for a file system 
> driver.  Otherwise you get all sorts of disgustingly horrible allocation 
> patterns depending on the endianness of the machine...

Well, tell that to ext2/3 maintainers since they introduced
the ext2_test_bit() and friends. They do require LE handling
of the bit array since that's an on-disk format. See how big endian
machines (parisc/ppc/sparc/etc) deal with it in asm/bitops.h.

grant