linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/44 take 2] [UBI] internal common header

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Message-ID: <20070225104233.GC2045@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:42:33 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frank Haverkamp <haver@...t.ibm.com>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/44 take 2] [UBI] internal common header

On Tue 2007-02-20 15:33:18, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 10:22 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > But __be32 will catch the same errors these days because the be/le
> > types use __bitwise now, right?  So use of the __be32/__be64 types should
> > be preferred since it also will work with sparse, I would think.
> 
> Does __bitwise work in gcc? I thought it was only for sparse?

Hmm... if you have superior endian-debugging infrastructure, perhaps
you should just move rest of kernel to it? Having two endian-debugging
infrastructures is ugly...
									Pavel
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