Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756011AbXJIS5Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752828AbXJIS5Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:57:16 -0400 Received: from de01egw01.freescale.net ([192.88.165.102]:53018 "EHLO de01egw01.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751889AbXJIS5P (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:57:15 -0400 Message-ID: <470BCEFC.9060302@freescale.com> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:57:00 -0500 From: Timur Tabi Organization: Freescale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: Lennart Sorensen , Anton Altaparmakov , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD References: <4706822D.4070509@freescale.com> <470691EB.7020209@freescale.com> <4706A842.9030507@freescale.com> <20071009174623.GC4003@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <470BC0D5.70305@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 18 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > There is no such thing as bit-order. Yes, there is. You need to read the article at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6788. Explains what it means for bits to be in one order versus another. This is from the perspective of external devices, not the CPU (which is always consistent with regards to bit order) -- Timur Tabi Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale - 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/