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

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 18 05:26:50 EDT 2010


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 ?



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