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Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:00:41 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove powerpc bitops infavor of existing generic bitops
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Jon Mason writes:

> There already exists a big endian safe bitops implementation in
> lib/find_next_bit.c.  The code in it is 90%+ common with the powerpc
> specific version, so the powerpc version is redundant.  This patch
> makes the necessary changes to use the generic bitops in powerpc, and
> removes the powerpc specific version.

This patch breaks ARCH=ppc builds.  Please resubmit with the necessary
changes to arch/ppc/Kconfig as well.

Paul.