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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 6/6] byteorder: add copy_{endian} helpers
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:38:01 -0700
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On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:15 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.
> 

True, I had originally called this put_le16.  akpm suggested copy_le16.
What do people think of copy_as_le16?

Harvey