From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751131AbWAYL0X (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:26:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751127AbWAYL0X (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:26:23 -0500 Received: from ns.miraclelinux.com ([219.118.163.66]:46489 "EHLO mail01.miraclelinux.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751122AbWAYL0V (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:26:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:26:25 +0900 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Richard Henderson , Ivan Kokshaysky , Russell King , Ian Molton , dev-etrax@axis.com, David Howells , Yoshinori Sato , Linus Torvalds , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Hirokazu Takata , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, Greg Ungerer , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux390@de.ibm.com, linuxsh-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, linuxsh-shmedia-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, ultralinux@vger.kernel.org, Miles Bader , Andi Kleen , Chris Zankel Subject: [PATCH 0/6] RFC: use include/asm-generic/bitops.h Message-ID: <20060125112625.GA18584@miraclelinux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: mita@miraclelinux.com (Akinobu Mita) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Large number of boilerplate bit operations written in C-language are scattered around include/asm-*/bitops.h. These patch series gather them into include/asm-generic/bitops.h. And - kill duplicated code and comment (about 4000lines) - use better C-language equivalents - help porting new architecture (now include/asm-generic/bitops.h is not referenced from anywhere)