From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759469Ab2D0QRI (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:17:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([140.211.166.183]:49115 "EHLO smtp.gentoo.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758889Ab2D0QRG (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:17:06 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] asm-generic: io: don't perform swab during {in,out} string functions Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:18:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.4.0-rc1; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org, Arnd Bergmann References: <1335523376-14695-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> <1335523376-14695-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> In-Reply-To: <1335523376-14695-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1479544.NqU8s0yJEH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201204271219.00596.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1479544.NqU8s0yJEH Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 27 April 2012 06:42:56 Will Deacon wrote: > The {in,out}s{b,w,l} functions are designed to operate on a stream of > bytes and therefore should not perform any byte-swapping, regardless of > the CPU byte order. says who ? where's the agreed upon documentation for this ? (i'm not disagreeing with you, just that there lacks justification here, an= d=20 someone can just as easily post another patch saying the opposite of what y= ou=20 said and there's nothing stopping us from merging it) =2Dmike --nextPart1479544.NqU8s0yJEH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPmsb0AAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBUl0QAIXqwWqaVDmwRwrTwmMNaByM QfZUcDmxQoHtHAV0ReWOpsM5cow2TSrRZuYprpg6cml4Zd+up/7YJPXTv2cJf50l CxiayvCcED6zcEs5XnS3CBL4b9566JMBkzUQPIzT3YGYhBR27XTEG2QsRjExK9tf YB3caF8jCVKw6sjiSQZ4rWNOMFRU1us/2UO9GAYl+8U/VwBY77S0+fjiaUkrPzPJ tG+owm8VyagyWlbNDhaqrpWEoJQpLEF6EZjeUBhjwcA8zNCqyijtfi9qdHMclW/n vnHNU7uB6flPp/Qt2UFY3X/VwG1aAjM7m7weoZNSn8GoFDPQplDT3Pmpdq6ZZLMa pY+O47G1VnABtYz3U1krZhVOnMOpObT7H1amLKLsXLzrM/58jOsUb5bdyZ+QcV66 dtdmla/Xx4Xtn0wZhatxHGz2t/YGDUMQakJN562ysXJT/BixSWEV1l9ulqXRy9sK axhj+7JMU5afHXcKYnCrRSGD9qmvvxDWEG7H8+SDh7oTrTltBMFWRC9VxpIdYJUp OQ1b3Eg8hzC1z4EG8LmWsDfzkaJGpFnpTDwg/LiVgHZbsy7NM3/ZhyWEGvRZGdud gZDbvH1pvJDw1ZSYNdzfqQqiTDvjZpfZDHR8hBT/XoEz3JIL8mvUfoh12rOEabTR AZBgEHrTZv65scTRZN5M =PUqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1479544.NqU8s0yJEH--