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Message-Id: <1233862227.22037.3.camel@brick>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:30:27 -0800
From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>
Cc: v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: fix endian issues [attempt 2]
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:16 -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Harvey Harrison
> <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 13:05 -0600, ericvh@...il.com wrote:
> >> From: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>
> >>
> >> When the changes were done to the protocol last release, some endian
> >> bugs crept in. This patch fixes those endian problems and has been
> >> verified to run on 32/64 bit and x86/ppc architectures.
> >>
> >> This version of the patch incorporates the correct annotations
> >> for endian variables.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>
> >
> > Looks better to me.
> >
>
> Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I was trigger happy with the
> commit and added whitespace, so everyone gets to see this patch one
> more time (sorry).
>
Actually for the read case, you may want to look at leXX_to_cpus which
will swap the value in-place through a pointer, so you can avoid the
temporary endian variable.
Harvey
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