From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:56:55 +0000
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Use of swab16() in drivers/hwmon/*.c
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Hi,

On 01/07/2011 11:59 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> This has nothing to do with the host's endianess. This has to do with
> the fact that the SMBus specification says that words are sent low byte
> first but almost all hardware monitoring devices send the high byte
> first (because it makes a lot more sense.)

Thanks! I just ignored that the word implementation of Linux' SMBus
(I2C_SMBUS_WORD_DATA etc.) already takes care of that.

bye,
  Roland

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