Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose little-endian bitops

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.

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