Re: [RFC][PATCH resend 8/12] asm-generic: bitops: introduce le bit offset macro
Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:51 +0000
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On Monday 10 May 2010, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: > (2010/05/06 22:38), Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 May 2010, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: > >> There was a suggestion to propose set_le_bit_user() kind of macros. > >> But what I thought was these have a constraint you two explained and seemed to be > >> a little bit specific to some area, like KVM. > >> > >> So I decided to propose just the offset calculation macro. > > > > I'm not sure I understand how this macro is going to be used though. > > If you are just using this in kernel space, that's fine, please go for > > it. > > Yes, I'm just using in kernel space: qemu has its own endian related helpers. > > So if you allow us to place this macro in asm-generic/bitops/* it will help us. No problem at all then. Thanks for the explanation. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>