Re: [RFC][PATCH] byteorder: introduce le32_add_cpu & friends tocore

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 14:18:44 EST


On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:06:34PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> There are many places where these functions would be useful.
> (just look at: grep -r 'cpu_to_[ble12346]*([ble12346]*_to_cpu.*[-+]' linux-src/)
> What do you think?
>
> ps: this patch depends on http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/25/35
> --
>
> add inline functions which add native byte order variable to
> little/big endian variable to core header and as an example
> convert ext3 to use them

Various places already have this as be*_add / le*_add, so it might be
more useful to keep those names already in use.

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