Dear Daniel Mack,
In message 20090604180042.GN26688@buzzloop.caiaq.de you wrote:
Ok. I just saw ubifs implementing its own set_bit() functions and considered that the wrong place for such functions to live in. ext2 seems to do the same things, also minix. Platforms which want to enable support for these filesystems have to do an evil #define to map ext2_set_bit() to the platform specific version. Which is all bogus, you might agree. And because of that situation, ubifs can't currently build for anything else than ppc (according to 'git grep -w fls include/asm*').
Yes, we have a mess here, and we need toclean this up ASAP.
I'm trying to find out if there is any agreement what a portable set of I/O and bit macro definitions should look like.
Anyway - applying the first patch of this series would at least prevent others from being mislead by dead and wrong code.
ACK on that.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk