From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, bluebird <bluebird@gentoo.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/23] byteorder: only use linux/swab.h
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:32:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231281153.25147.18.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901061407120.3057@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 14:08 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >
> > The first step to make swab.h a regular header that will
> > include an asm/swab.h with arch overrides.
>
> Btw, was there some reason why you didn't just do the <asm/swab.h> files
> first? That would seem to simplify the whole sequence, and in fact it
> would also allow me to just apply all the "create asm/swab.h" patches
> first regardless of any other work..
>
> Linus
My goal was the elimination of the linux/byteorder.h you objected to while
not breaking the arch overrides of the arches that had already converted.
So it's not just moving to swab.h, it also eliminates the linux/byteorder.h
includes, for this to work, I need to fix swab.h first.
Harvey
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-06 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-06 21:30 [PATCH 01/23] byteorder: only use linux/swab.h Harvey Harrison
2009-01-06 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-06 22:32 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
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