linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline_

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Message-ID: <49567AC3.4030507@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:58:11 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I wnet with the scripted conversion for now.
> If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal.
> 
> What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid
> adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers.
> 

Indeed, and being keyword conversion, it's independent of context, at
least as long as one doesn't have too many run-ins with weird uses of
the # and ## preprocessor operators, which are a *lot* easier to rule
out globally.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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