linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] byteorder: add new headers for make headers-install

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:13:14 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] byteorder: add new headers for make headers-install

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:10 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 13:38 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
> > ---
> > Andrew, two fixes before the arches start moving over.
> 
> We don't expose cpu_to_le32() et al., do we? Only __cpu_to_le32() and
> similar? Which exported headers use these -- and are they actually using
> the __ versions? If not, they're not going to work anyway, are they?
> 

Correct, the cpu_to_le32(), etc are wrapped in #ifdef KERNEL, but this adds
the export for the two new headers that will replace the byteorder/*.h
implementation.

Once each arch has moved over, include/linux/byteorder/* will go away.

Cheers,

Harvey

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