Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:18:25 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] byteorder: introduce le32_add_cpu & friends to
	core
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:06:34PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> There are many places where these functions would be useful.
> (just look at: grep -r 'cpu_to_[ble12346]*([ble12346]*_to_cpu.*[-+]' linux-src/)
> What do you think?
> 
> ps: this patch depends on http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/25/35
> --
> 
> add inline functions which add native byte order variable to
> little/big endian variable to core header and as an example
> convert ext3 to use them

Various places already have this as be*_add / le*_add, so it might be
more useful to keep those names already in use.

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