Re: [PATCH 1/12] generic *_bit()

[Grant Grundler]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:49:08PM +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Err, searching by anything other than bytes is useless for a file system 
> driver.  Otherwise you get all sorts of disgustingly horrible allocation 
> patterns depending on the endianness of the machine...

Well, tell that to ext2/3 maintainers since they introduced
the ext2_test_bit() and friends. They do require LE handling
of the bit array since that's an on-disk format. See how big endian
machines (parisc/ppc/sparc/etc) deal with it in asm/bitops.h.

grant
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