Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 16:08:20 -0800 | From | Grant Grundler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit() |
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:49:08PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Err, searching by anything other than bytes is useless for a file system > driver. Otherwise you get all sorts of disgustingly horrible allocation > patterns depending on the endianness of the machine...
Well, tell that to ext2/3 maintainers since they introduced the ext2_test_bit() and friends. They do require LE handling of the bit array since that's an on-disk format. See how big endian machines (parisc/ppc/sparc/etc) deal with it in asm/bitops.h.
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