linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

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Message-ID: <20070517145653.GA968@lst.de>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 16:56:53 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, akpm@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:50:43PM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Christoph,
> 
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:32 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Kill ubis homegrown endianess handling crap and replace it with
> > the normal kernel endianess handling.
> 
> Err,__be32 and the company are just sparse things, while I have compiler
> checks with my struct ubi32_t and friends. JFFS2 also uses the same
> technique. Why do you force me to rely on sparse instead instead of
> compiler?

Yes.  Like all other code in the kernel aswell.

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