From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail01.miraclelinux.com (ns.miraclelinux.com [219.118.163.66]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84F968AAD for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:46:46 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:26:25 +0900 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/6] RFC: use include/asm-generic/bitops.h Message-ID: <20060125112625.GA18584@miraclelinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: mita@miraclelinux.com (Akinobu Mita) Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Ian Molton , David Howells , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Greg Ungerer , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Miles Bader , Linus Torvalds , Yoshinori Sato , Hirokazu Takata , linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , Richard Henderson , Chris Zankel , dev-etrax@axis.com, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linux390@de.ibm.com, Russell King , parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Large number of boilerplate bit operations written in C-language are scattered around include/asm-*/bitops.h. These patch series gather them into include/asm-generic/bitops.h. And - kill duplicated code and comment (about 4000lines) - use better C-language equivalents - help porting new architecture (now include/asm-generic/bitops.h is not referenced from anywhere)