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 17:51:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903021749030.3111@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236040845.5756.33.camel@brick>
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> OK, static inline it is then. Would you be opposed to an API like:
>
> get_le16
> put_le16
>
> to match with
>
> get_unaligned_le16
> put_unaligned_le16
>
> And make the existing unaligned helpers typesafe?
That sounds much better to me. That said, I'm also wondering what the
upside is of this all?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 1:52 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
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 [this message]
2009-03-03 2:09 ` Harvey Harrison
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