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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:13:37 +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

Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> The name seems a bit silly as I imagine most fs drivers would be able to =

> use them and there already are ext2 and minix versions.  Probably ought=20
> be renamed to a more generic name like le_test_bit() or something...

Minix is even more complicated, since the on-disk format is different
between architectures (the m68k port of Minix did not handle that
correctly).

Andreas.

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