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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:07:25 -0800

> My apologies indeed, the best choice I think is to add a temp var
> for now and I'll work with you to eliminate the byteswapping further
> up the callchain so a be32 gets passed down, but that might be too
> involved for 2.6.29.

Alternatively we could provide a %p* variant that took
cpu endian addresses.

I don't know how useful that would be, generally.