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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/20] parisc: use the new byteorder headers
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:18:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080801231807.GA26550@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217625817.5846.5.camel@brick>

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:23:37PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
...
> > Should this only be defined if BITS_PER_LONG is <=32  ?
> 
> The new byteorder headers only uses this if no __arch_swab64 is defined.
> 
> Further down in the parisc version, an __arch_swab64 is defined in the
> BITS_PER_LONG >=32 case, making this moot.

Ok.

...
> Other than the endianness, any other concerns?

Have you had a chance to test this?
Or can you point me at another big endian arch that has similar 
use of header files that has been successfully tested?

I can arrange for access to parisc HW if you have time/interest
in testing this yourself.

thanks,
grant

> 
> Harvey

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-18  0:09 Harvey Harrison
2008-08-01 16:06 ` Grant Grundler
2008-08-01 21:23   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-08-01 23:18     ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2008-08-02  5:52       ` Harvey Harrison
2008-08-02 18:03       ` Harvey Harrison

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