linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/23] arm: introduce asm/swab.h

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Message-Id: <1231285327.1529.2.camel@brick>
Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:42:07 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/23] arm: introduce asm/swab.h

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 23:14 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 11:12:35PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > Thanks for bypassing me.
> > 
> > We've had this patch in the kernel before, then it got reverted.
> 
> Correction - we've had something similar to this before.

This got hashed out between HPA, David Woodhouse and I and agreed that
we'd keep the headers exported.

Linus didn't like the conditional byteorder.h and some arches were
already using it.  So I did the sweep of all arches just to get
this over with and move on.  Sorry I didn't give you a heads up
beforehand.

Cheers,

Harvey

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