From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 00:55:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080601045508.GA1810@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080531223419.GA30769@solarflare.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-01 4:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <f12db478511ce4ff462d1b236724e4fc46470a4d.1212272760.git.bhutchings@solarflare.com>
2008-05-31 22:34 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-31 22:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] Remove 'generic_' prefix from generic " Ben Hutchings
2008-05-31 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use <asm-generic/bitops/le.h> in <asm-powerpc/bitops.h> Ben Hutchings
2008-05-31 22:52 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-31 23:50 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-06-01 4:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080601045508.GA1810@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=bhutchings@solarflare.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome