netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/13 v4] usb/net: rndis: inline the cpu_to

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Date:	Sun, 06 May 2012 21:23:19 +0300
From:	Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
	Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13 v4] usb/net: rndis: inline the cpu_to_le32()
 macro

Quoting Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>:

> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Jussi Kivilinna
> <jussi.kivilinna@...et.fi> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>:
>>
>>> The header file <linux/usb/rndis_host.h> used a number of #defines
>>> that included the cpu_to_le32() macro to assure the result will be
>>> in LE endianness. Inlining this into the code instead of using it
>>> in the code definitions yields consolidation opportunities later
>>> on as you will see in the following patches. The individual
>>> drivers also used local defines - all are switched over to the
>>> pattern of doing the conversion at the call sites instead.
>>>
>>
>> After this patch, endianness checks with sparse output:
> (...)
>> Patch fixing this attached.
>
> Thanks! Folded this into patch 1 and added your Signed-off-by.
>
>> Patch-set to clean-up ugliness caused by this patch at:
>> http://koti.mbnet.fi/axh/kernel/rndis_wlan/
>
> This seems like a good middle-ground as compared to the
> other suggestion to force all defines to be cpu_to_le32().
>
> Do you want me to rebase this on top of my series (there was
> a number of conflicts later in the series) and carry it as part
> of this patch set?

Please, do.

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>
>



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