Re: [PATCH 4/5] rds: stop including asm-generic/bitops/le.h directly

From: Akinobu Mita
Date: Sun Oct 10 2010 - 11:09:44 EST


2010/10/9 David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> From: Andy Grover <andy.grover@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:55:55 -0700
>
>> On 10/08/2010 03:03 AM, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>>> asm-generic/bitops/le.h is only intended to be included directly from
>>> asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h or asm-generic/bitops/minix-le.h
>>> which implements generic ext2 or minix bit operations.
>>>
>>> This stops including asm-generic/bitops/le.h directly and use ext2
>>> non-atomic bit operations instead.
>>>
>>> An alternative approach is introducing little endian bit operations
>>> in linux/bitops.h. But it needs to touch more files than this change
>>> does.
>>
>>> -    generic___set_le_bit(off, (void *)map->m_page_addrs[i]);
>>> +    ext2_set_bit(off, (void *)map->m_page_addrs[i]);
>>
>> I'd like a solution that doesn't have rds calling a function starting
>> with ext2_. Seems wrong.
>
> Agreed.

OK, I'll rewrite the patch series to take the alternative approach.
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