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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tony.luck" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 6/6] byteorder: add copy_{endian} helpers
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:20:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080604232022.GA28960@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1212608385.6340.32.camel@brick>

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:39:45PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 21:34 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:15 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > Sounds still a bit strange to me...
> > 
> > As `get' and `put' have connotations of reference counts, what about
> > `load' and `store', e.g. `load_le32()' and `store_be16()'?
> > 
> 
> Well, load is covered by le16_to_cpup and friends.

What about the logical cpu_to_le16p then?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 23:21 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
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 [this message]
2008-06-04 23:27           ` Harvey Harrison

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