From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
dedekind@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 22:29:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517212913.GV4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000705171414u55af4c03m6e6d2fbcf982e3ff@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:14:26PM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 5/17/07, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >Ahem... So what does
> > x |= y;
> >turns into with that approach?
>
> Do we want to do such kind of operations on endian-annotated data? I'd
> imagine you want to convert ot host-endianess first anyway.
Why? When both x and y are of the same type, it's a perfectly sane and
safe operation. And yes, sparse checks handle that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-17 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 14:32 [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 14:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-17 14:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 15:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-17 17:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-17 17:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-17 18:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-17 20:32 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-17 20:30 ` Matthieu CASTET
2007-05-18 2:39 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-18 2:57 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-18 3:17 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-18 11:52 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-05-18 14:52 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-18 22:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-19 2:07 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-19 12:24 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-05-20 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-18 19:55 ` matthieu castet
2007-05-19 1:29 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-18 20:30 ` matthieu castet
2007-05-17 20:42 ` Al Viro
2007-05-17 20:53 ` Al Viro
2007-05-18 6:58 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-05-18 8:38 ` Al Viro
2007-05-17 21:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-05-17 21:29 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-05-17 21:33 ` David Miller
2007-05-17 21:47 ` Al Viro
2007-05-17 21:26 ` Al Viro
2007-05-17 20:56 ` David Miller
2007-05-17 21:03 ` Al Viro
2007-05-17 15:50 ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-17 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 18:23 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-05-17 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-17 20:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-17 20:27 ` Matthieu CASTET
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