From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933909AbYETVQU (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:16:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760714AbYETVQM (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:16:12 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41729 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759997AbYETVQL (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 17:16:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080520.141607.147404741.davem@davemloft.net> To: harvey.harrison@gmail.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Remove all users of cpu_to_{le|be}{16|32|64}p From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1211311449.5915.193.camel@brick> References: <1211311449.5915.193.camel@brick> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Harvey Harrison Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 12:24:08 -0700 > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison > --- > akpm: applies on top of the 21-patch aligned get/put helpers series. Can you provide some contextual information in the changelog message? Why are the cpu_to_*p() uses going away? Do the normal cpu_to_*() now transparently emit the special other-endian loads and stores some cpus? You should always describe such things in your changelog message so people don't need to ask these kinds of questions.