linux-kernel - Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN

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Message-ID: <47069982.9030009@freescale.com>
Date:	Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:07:30 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> The bit mapping on your device is strictly internal to the device and
> has nothing to do with bit order on the C level.

Then I don't understand that point of defining __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD.  What 
does it mean for a C-level bitfield ordering to be little-endian if the 
processor is BIG_ENDIAN?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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