From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] byteorder: add load/store_{endian} API
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:15:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903021613590.3111@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236038817.5756.11.camel@brick>
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> store_le16 is a new API and is added to be symmetric with the unaligned
> functions.
This seems to be expressly designed to be unsafe, in that it casts the
thing to the right type, making it impossible for sparse to warn about
bad byteorder use.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 0:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 0:06 Harvey Harrison
2009-03-03 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-03-03 0:25 ` Harvey Harrison
2009-03-03 0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-03 0:40 ` Harvey Harrison
2009-03-03 1:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-03-03 2:09 ` Harvey Harrison
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