linux-kernel - Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN

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Message-ID: <470BCEFC.9060302@freescale.com>
Date:	Tue, 09 Oct 2007 13:57:00 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
CC:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@....ac.uk>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: __LITTLE_ENDIAN vs. __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> There is no such thing as bit-order.

Yes, there is.  You need to read the article at 
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6788.  Explains what it means for bits to 
be in one order versus another.  This is from the perspective of external 
devices, not the CPU (which is always consistent with regards to bit order)


-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
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