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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2.6] cciss typo fix
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:50:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105372238.4477.5.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4CFB69C345C394284E4B78B876C1CF107DC0188@cceexc23.americas.cpqcorp.net>

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:45 -0600, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> Even if it were added to the compat header; is using __be32 correct in this context?

They should be.  The __be annotations track unconverted big endian
numbers.  be32_to_cpu checks that it's only taking __be annotated
variables (at least when sparse tracks it), so the cast is correct and
prevents sparse from warning.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-10 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-10 15:45 [PATCH 2.6] cciss typo fix Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2005-01-10 15:50 ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-07 23:34 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2005-01-07 23:24 Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2005-01-07 23:32 ` James Bottomley
2005-01-08  8:41 ` Jens Axboe
2005-01-07 23:01 mike.miller
2005-01-07 23:19 ` James Bottomley

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