dony> I know this. I just don't know what data is in little endian and
dony> what data is in big endian. say the following code ....
dony> struct ext2_super_block * es; struct super_block * sb;
dony> ..............................
dony> es->smtime=cpu_to_le32(CURRENT_TIME); //why here use cpu_to_le32?
dony> sb->u.ext2_sb.s_mount_state=le32_to_cpu(es->state); //why use
dony> sb->le32_to_cpu here?
Because the data pointed to by es is to be stored on disk, sb resides
in memory only.
Jes
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