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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lzo: fix possible typo in decompresor
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:52:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207860739.22001.41.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804101346240.3143@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 13:49 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >
> > Shift of a le value seems strange, probably meant to shift the cpu-order
> > variable as in the prvious section of the switch statement.
> 
> Hmm. This patch looks ObviouslyCorrect(tm), but it worries me that 
> apparently the old broken code has been around since last July, and afaik 
> it can never have worked on big-endian machines.
> 
> So did nobody ever use it, or why hasn't this ever triggered? How did you 
> find this? A sparse warning?
> 
> 		Linus

When converting in tree users to my proposed unaligned byteswapping api.
See the 8 patch series posted today to linux-arch.

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10 20:38 [PATCH] lzo: fix possible typo in decompresor Harvey Harrison
2008-04-10 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-10 20:52   ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-04-10 22:18   ` Richard Purdie
2008-04-10 22:22     ` Harvey Harrison

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