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From: "Om N." <xhandle@gmail.com>
To: "Om N." <xhandle@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: writing portable code based on BITS_PER_LONG?
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 13:08:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6de39a910608061308t4c9dd9fdo3e1ff634a3079e3d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060806103143.GR20586@lug-owl.de>

On 8/6/06, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-08-05 23:16:29 -0700, Om N. <xhandle@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to port a driver written for IA32. This is a pci driver
> > and has a chipset doing PCI <-> local bus data transfer, where local
> > bus is 16 bit. So a number of values are converted by right/left
> > shifting by 16 bits.
> I'd probably write some macros that access the parts of the longs you
> want to have/set and put these into some header file.
Let me go the macro way. Let me beat the code into some shape and then
post a url to the list for comments on 64bit safeness.

Thanks for ideas,
Regards,
Om.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-06 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-06  6:16 Om N.
2006-08-06 10:31 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-08-06 20:08   ` Om N. [this message]
2006-08-06 16:12 ` Arjan van de Ven

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