Re: [PATCH v4 00/24] Introduce little endian bitops

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Changing *_bit_le() to take "void *" instead of "unsigned long *"
> makes this patch series acceptable?

That would seem to at least make all the filesystem code happier, and
they can continue to do just something like

   #define ext2_set_bit __set_bit_le

(or whatever the exact sequence ends up being).

> Or do we also need to change *_bit_le() to handle unaligned address
> correctly?  (i.e. not only long aligned address but also byte aligned
> address)

No, I don't think that is required. We've never done it before, and
we've never had the type-safety for the little-endian (aka "minix")
bitops historically. So I'd just keep the status quo.

              Linus
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