From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Joe Eykholt <jeykholt@cisco.com>
Cc: Rob Evers <revers@redhat.com>, Jing Huang <huangj@brocade.com>,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] bfa: remove os wrapper functions and macros
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:50:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBF8062.9010609@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBF7569.90708@cisco.com>
On 10/20/2010 06:04 PM, Joe Eykholt wrote:
>>>> #ifndef __BIGENDIAN
>>>> -#define bfa_os_hton3b(_x) bfa_swap_3b(_x)
>>>> +#define bfa_os_hton3b(_x) bfa_swap_3b(_x)
>>>
>>> Should bfa_os_hton3b and related functionality be relocated
>>> appropriately and implemented in common form to the other common byte
>>> swapping code?
>>>
>>
>> Yes. I think intel was working on that for fcoe. Someone should dig up the patches and finish pushing.
>
> It's in<scsi/fc_frame.h> as hton24() / ntoh24(). It's written in
> an endian-independent way. I don't know of patches to move them to
> a better place.
iscsi and some other code has it too. Chris Leech was working on it in
this patchset "24-bit types: typedef and functions for accessing 3-byte
arrays as integers". I think this was the latest:
http://www.mail-archive.com/jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01330.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 0:12 [PATCH 3/6] bfa: remove os wrapper functions and macros Jing Huang
2010-10-20 15:25 ` Rob Evers
2010-10-20 22:16 ` Mike Christie
2010-10-20 23:04 ` Joe Eykholt
2010-10-20 23:16 ` Jing Huang
2010-10-20 23:50 ` Mike Christie [this message]
2010-10-20 23:48 ` Jing Huang
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