Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964786AbXBYKmr (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:42:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964791AbXBYKmq (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:42:46 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:40277 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964786AbXBYKmn (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Feb 2007 05:42:43 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:42:33 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: David Woodhouse Cc: Theodore Tso , Artem Bityutskiy , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Frank Haverkamp , Josh Boyer , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/44 take 2] [UBI] internal common header Message-ID: <20070225104233.GC2045@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070217165424.5845.4390.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070217165449.5845.18238.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20070219105445.GA16930@infradead.org> <1171976753.4039.27.camel@sauron> <20070220145503.GC3170@thunk.org> <1171984555.3518.5.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20070220152259.GD3170@thunk.org> <1171985598.3518.8.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1171985598.3518.8.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 20 On Tue 2007-02-20 15:33:18, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:22 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > But __be32 will catch the same errors these days because the be/le > > types use __bitwise now, right? So use of the __be32/__be64 types should > > be preferred since it also will work with sparse, I would think. > > Does __bitwise work in gcc? I thought it was only for sparse? Hmm... if you have superior endian-debugging infrastructure, perhaps you should just move rest of kernel to it? Having two endian-debugging infrastructures is ugly... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/