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Olof Johansson wrote:

>  - you can never assign a __le16 type to any other integer type or any 
>    other bitwise type. You'd get a warnign about incompatible types. Makes 
>    sense, no?

Then why do the in_be functions return an unsigned int instead of a __be type?  Isn't that 
effectively removing the endian-ness from the type?

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale