Re: [PATCH 22/22] bitops: remove minix bitops from asm/bitops.h

Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-10-16T11:35:47Z

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:50, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> Funny, m68k uses the little endian minix file system?
>>
>> Perhaps this was due to minix using the ext2 accessors? And ext2 being
>> switched from big to little endian ext2 on m68k, without anyone
>> noticing the impact
>> on minix?
>
> m68k has always used big-endian minixfs and the minix bitops were always
> independent of the ext2 ones.

Thanks for confirming!

Hence "[PATCH 21/22] m68k: convert minix bitops to use little endian
bitops" is not correct?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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