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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:08:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: powerpc: introduce asm/swab.h
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > Was this tested ? I see no arch maintainer signed-off here, it appears
> > to at least break ppc32, and contains hunks that paulus says were
> > explicitely nacked (removing of our ld_* macros) etc...
> 
> It did no such thing. It just moved the file.
> 
> Use
> 
> 	git show -M -B 156ca2bbf6503a02d7d6829886ce381d572de66e
> 
> to see how <asm/swab.h> is just the old <asm/byteorder.h> renamed, and 
> with some stuff moved around.

I suspect that all archs that define __SWAB_64_THRU_32__ are broken atm.

According to "git grep ___swab32", there is no more definition for 
___swab32 anywhere.


Nicolas
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