Re: [PATCH 04/22] arm: introduce little endian bitops

From: Russell King - ARM Linux
Date: Mon Oct 18 2010 - 09:58:32 EST


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:22:59PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> 2010/10/18 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:46:03PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >> Introduce little endian bit operations by renaming native ext2 bit
> >> operations. The ext2 bit operations are kept by using little endian
> >> bit operations until the conversions are finished.
> >
> > Can you explain why we need another level of indirection rather than
> > using asm-generic/bitops/le.h, asm-generic/bitops/minix.h and
> > asm-generic/bitops/ext2-non-atomic.h ?
>
> Sorry for not CCing the cover letter of this patch series.

BTW, I've not seen any of the others in this patch series, not even via
linux-arch...
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