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DateMon, 18 Oct 2010 16:07:37 +0100
FromRussell King - ARM Linux <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/22] arm: introduce little endian bitops
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 04:45:12PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Note that patches 20 and 22 of the series completely eliminate the
> the minix and ext2 definitions, putting them into architecture independent
> code in those two file systems where they belong.

Good.

> Adding the new definitions in patch 4 is just a logical step before removing
> the old definitions in the later patches while maintaining bisectability.

In which case I don't have a problem with the series.

> > What I'm trying to say is please don't make the existing mess of bitops
> > any worse than it currently is.
>
> The series currently adds 20 lines to the arm code (could be reduced to
> 6 lines), but removes 26 lines which are essentially architecture
> independent and shouldn't be there to start with. I'd call that the
> opposite of making the mess worse.

Right - if I could've seen the rest of the series, then maybe I'd have
known that. However, I seemed to have silently dropped off linux-arch
back in April and only just noticed, which means I've missed rather a
lot...


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