Re: [RFC] Normalizing byteorder/unaligned access API

[Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:33 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:39:25PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > As an example, in the write command handling in achba.c, a patch similar to the following
> > (assumes the existence of a __be24 type somewhere):
> 
> What type could be defined to be '__be24'?  Would
> 
> typedef struct {
> 	unsigned char data[3];
> } __be24;

__packed

> 
> do the trick?  It's not an integral type, but I'm not sure if that matters.
> 
> > +				cmnd_lba = unaligned_be24_to_cpup(&tmp->lba) & 0x001FFFFF;
> 
> That might be easier to read if you're using a 500-column terminal.  For
> the rest of us,
> 				cmnd_lba = scsi_get_u24(cmnd + 2) & 0x1FFFFF;
> is much easier to read.

Suggestions welcome on shorter common names for the unaligned helpers.

Cheers,

Harvey