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

From: Marcin Slusarz
Date: Sun Dec 30 2007 - 16:48:25 EST


On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 07:18:25PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

I found it in XFS only. Did I miss something?
be32_add is shorter than be32_add_cpu but I think it's not clear
whether second parameter is in native byte order or not.

Marcin
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