Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761204AbXEQVdk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 17:33:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755285AbXEQVdd (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 17:33:33 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52306 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754972AbXEQVdc (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2007 17:33:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070517.143334.38710608.davem@davemloft.net> To: dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Cc: viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dedekind@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@lst.de Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20070517102931.6bbbad1a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070517204234.GR4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 19 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:14:26 -0400 > On 5/17/07, Al Viro wrote: > > > > Ahem... So what does > > x |= y; > > turns into with that approach? > > Do we want to do such kind of operations on endian-annotated data? I'd > imagine you want to convert ot host-endianess first anyway. Generally you don't, if 'x' and 'y' are both in the needed endinaness already, there is no reason to convert anything. - 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/