From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Normalizing byteorder/unaligned access API
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:28:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007232807.GL25780@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223416391.8195.22.camel@brick>
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:53:11PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> In addition, there are some subsystems (scsi) that are looking into some
> differently sized endian helpers (be24) and it may be worthwhile to have
> some agreement whether it is worth making them common infrastructure and
> whether they should present a similar API to the common byteorder/unaligned
> API.
I still think SCSI should have its own accessors, even if they're
just wrappers around the common BE code.
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 21:53 [RFC] Normalizing byteorder/unaligned access API Harvey Harrison
2008-10-07 22:12 ` James Bottomley
2008-10-07 22:39 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-07 23:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-07 23:39 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-08 7:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-07 23:28 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-10-07 23:35 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-07 23:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-08 0:02 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-10-08 7:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-10-08 7:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-10-08 7:34 ` Harvey Harrison
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