lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Jun]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [more markup]  [less markup]  [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
DateSun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:08 -0400
FromChristoph Hellwig <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:34:20PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> All architectures already have little-endian bitops for use by file-
> systems that use little-endian allocation tables.  Since these are
> more generally useful - Andrew Morton suggested we use them in the
> sfc driver - they should be exposed under consistent names.  The
> following patch series does that, using the names from
> <asm-generic/bitops/le.h> but without the "generic_" prefix.

Good idea.  But please also kill the ext2_ and minix_ prefixed aliases
while you're at it so that everyone uses the le_ prefixed ones.



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-06-01 07:27    [from the cache]
©2003-2008