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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/37] block: use get/put_endian helpers
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:22:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080530072220.GG25504@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212092287.28403.109.camel@brick>

On Thu, May 29 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/block/cciss.c     |   11 +++++------
>  drivers/block/paride/pd.c |    8 ++++----
>  drivers/block/ub.c        |    4 ++--
>  drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c     |    2 +-
>  4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

What is the point of this? I'm honestly asking, what is the grand idea
behind changing eg be32_to_cpu() to get_be32()?

-- 
Jens Axboe

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-30  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-29 20:18 [PATCH 07/37] block: use get/put_endian helpers Harvey Harrison
2008-05-30  7:22 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-05-30 16:06   ` Harvey Harrison

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