From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"tony.luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 6/6] byteorder: add copy_{endian} helpers
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:15:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806022038400.6262@anakin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212428244.11008.40.camel@brick>
On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> Add helpers for the idiom:
> *(__le16 *)ptr = cpu_to_le16(val);
>
> Can now be written as:
> copy_le16(ptr, val);
Copy a little endian 16-bit value?
It doesn't just copy. It does a byteswap during the copy.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-02 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-02 17:37 [PATCHv4 6/6] byteorder: add copy_{endian} helpers Harvey Harrison
2008-06-02 19:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2008-06-04 18:38 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-06-04 19:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-06-04 19:39 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-06-04 23:20 ` Russell King
2008-06-04 23:27 ` Harvey Harrison
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