le32_to_cpu() help...

dony (dony.he@huawei.com.cn)
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 23:40:57 +0800


Hi,

What role does le32_to_cpu() or cpu_to_le32() play in kernel? Why do we
need these two functions? They seem to translate a value from big-endian to
little-endian or vice versa, but I don't know why we need do this.
Thanks.

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