[PATCH] RFC: powerpc: expose the multi-bit ops that underlie single-bit ops.

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:33:46 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> You can also go totally mad and generate the whole function (both -s and
> non -s variants) from one macro but I wouldn't go that far :-)

Please don't (unless you keep the function names intact), it makes
finding the function with grep almost impossible ...

> > Also - any opinion on whether the same re-factoring of the asm-generic
> > versions should be undertaken? I'm not looking to bite off more than I
> > can chew, but I don't know if it's frowned upon to make powerpc-only
> > extensions to the API. And if you think an asm-generic patch makes
> > sense, could that be taken via linuxppc-dev too or does it need to go
> > elsewhere?
> 
> I'm not people care -that- much :-) You can always try and post it to
> lkml (maybe linux-arch too) and see what comes back... but let's finish
> the powerpc variant first :-)

Also, we have an asm-generic maintainer now ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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