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

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Message-Id: <1179414590.3642.69.camel@sauron>
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 18:09:50 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	akpm@...l.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:56 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Andrew, may I please have your ack that I absolutely have to use __be32
instead of my own types since Christoph tends to provide no explanation
to his requests.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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