Dony> On Tue, 02 Nov 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> They translate data to little endian from big endian on big endian
>> CPUs, on little endian CPUs like the x86 they are noops. We need
>> these because some hardware and other things like file systems
>> wants data in little endian order no matter what type of system you
>> are running on.
Dony> Then when do we use le32_to_cpu( ) , and when do we use
Dony> cpu_to_le32( )?
You use le32_to_cpu() when you want to read data which is in little
endian order and you use the other one when you try to write it.
Jes
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