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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:09:37 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hexdump: Add ability to do endian conversions in
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On Wed,  9 Dec 2015 13:59:30 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> There are use cases for dumping buffers with specific endian types
> for 2, 4, and 8 byte variables in arrays.
> 
> Add an enum for DUMP_TYPE_(LE|BE|CPU) to enable emitting them as such.
> 
> Rename groupsize to groupflags in the functions and add documentation
> to the kernel-doc to describe the use of the DUMP_TYPE_ enum.

What are these use cases?  Will patches be forthcoming to convert
them?