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Message-ID: <20081007232807.GL25780@parisc-linux.org> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:28:07 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com> Subject: Re: [RFC] Normalizing byteorder/unaligned access API On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:53:11PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote: > In addition, there are some subsystems (scsi) that are looking into some > differently sized endian helpers (be24) and it may be worthwhile to have > some agreement whether it is worth making them common infrastructure and > whether they should present a similar API to the common byteorder/unaligned > API. I still think SCSI should have its own accessors, even if they're just wrappers around the common BE code. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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