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

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2007 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dmitry.torokhov@...il.com
Cc:	viro@....linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	dedekind@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:14:26 -0400

> On 5/17/07, Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Ahem...  So what does
> >        x |= y;
> > turns into with that approach?
> 
> Do we want to do such kind of operations on endian-annotated data? I'd
> imagine you want to convert ot host-endianess first anyway.

Generally you don't, if 'x' and 'y' are both in the needed
endinaness already, there is no reason to convert anything.
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