linux-kernel - Re: powerpc: introduce asm/swab.h

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Message-Id: <1231303722.14442.1.camel@brick>
Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:48:42 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: powerpc: introduce asm/swab.h

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 15:42 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 04:00 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=156ca2bbf6503a02d7d6829886ce381d572de66e
> > Commit:     156ca2bbf6503a02d7d6829886ce381d572de66e
> > Parent:     8cdd3a9261e8efe36aeb6c708edb76d7e2b5d13f
> > Author:     Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
> > AuthorDate: Tue Jan 6 14:56:23 2009 -0800
> > Committer:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> > CommitDate: Tue Jan 6 18:10:27 2009 -0800
> > 
> >     powerpc: introduce asm/swab.h
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> Was this tested ? I see no arch maintainer signed-off here, it appears
> to at least break ppc32, and contains hunks that paulus says were
> explicitely nacked (removing of our ld_* macros) etc...
> 
> Linus, please revert.

Please look a bit closer, it's a pure movement of code out of byteorder.h into swab.h,
no changes whatsoever.

Cheers,

Harvey

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