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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: fix find_next_bit breakage on ppc and powerpc
Ingo Molnar writes:
>
> * Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com> wrote:
>
> > Powerpc (and ppc) have their have some code in their bitops.h which
> > used to be exacly the same as asm-generic/bitops/find.h. Include this
> > header instead.
> >
> > This should also fix the compile problems due to the generic
> > find_next_bit changes. Those were fixed by Thomas Gleixner in
> > asm-generic/bitops/find.h earlier.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
>
> thanks, applied. I dropped:

Why are powerpc (and ppc) patches
- not being sent to the powerpc maintainer (me)
- not being cc'd to the linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org list
- ending up going through the x86 tree?

How come patches to unify x86_32 and x86_64 bitops need to end up
touching powerpc?

Paul.


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