Imports Al Viro's original Linux commit 00b0c9b82663a, which contains
an in depth explanation and two fixes from Johannes Berg:
e7d4a95da86e0 "bitfield: fix *_encode_bits()",
37a3862e12382 "bitfield: add u8 helpers".
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
[s.nawrocki: added empty lines between functions and macros]
Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
[mb: squash fix including byteorder.h]
Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>
Copied from Linux 4.13.
Commit log of 3e9b3112ec74 of Linux explains well why this header
is useful.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
