Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:28:07 -0600
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
       linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
       linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
       Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Normalizing byteorder/unaligned access API
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:53:11PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> In addition, there are some subsystems (scsi) that are looking into some
> differently sized endian helpers (be24) and it may be worthwhile to have
> some agreement whether it is worth making them common infrastructure and
> whether they should present a similar API to the common byteorder/unaligned
> API.

I still think SCSI should have its own accessors, even if they're
just wrappers around the common BE code.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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