Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423438AbWBBKNx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:13:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423436AbWBBKNx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:13:53 -0500 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:63375 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423386AbWBBKNw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:13:52 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: Grant Grundler , "Chen, Kenneth W" , "'Christoph Hellwig'" , "'Akinobu Mita'" , Linux Kernel Development , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit() References: <20060201193933.GA16471@esmail.cup.hp.com> <200602012141.k11LfCg32497@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <20060201220903.GE16471@esmail.cup.hp.com> <20060202000820.GI16471@esmail.cup.hp.com> X-Yow: Now my EMOTIONAL RESOURCES are heavily committed to 23% of the SMELTING and REFINING industry of the state of NEVADA!! Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:13:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Anton Altaparmakov's message of "Thu, 2 Feb 2006 08:52:11 +0000 (GMT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 904 Lines: 22 Anton Altaparmakov writes: > The name seems a bit silly as I imagine most fs drivers would be able to > use them and there already are ext2 and minix versions. Probably ought > be renamed to a more generic name like le_test_bit() or something... Minix is even more complicated, since the on-disk format is different between architectures (the m68k port of Minix did not handle that correctly). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/