[PATCH] bit reverse library

This patch provides two bit reverse functions and bit reverse table.

- reverse the order of bits in a u32 value

	u8 bitrev8(u8 x);

- reverse the order of bits in a u32 value

	u32 bitrev32(u32 x);

- byte reverse table

	const u8 byte_rev_table[256];

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bitrev.h b/include/linux/bitrev.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..05e540d6963a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/bitrev.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_BITREV_H
+#define _LINUX_BITREV_H
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+extern u8 const byte_rev_table[256];
+
+static inline u8 bitrev8(u8 byte)
+{
+	return byte_rev_table[byte];
+}
+
+extern u32 bitrev32(u32 in);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_BITREV_H */