linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hmc6352: Add driver for the HMC6352 compass

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Message-ID: <20100617134650.501b14bb@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:46:50 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hmc6352: Add driver for the HMC6352 compass

> > Its an array anyway - there isn't as such a 'correct macro' nor
> > does it need to be using one.
> 
> So why does he use this unstructured data? Do we just hope the
> compiler is good enough on big endian architectures?

Its an array because it comes from an i2c bus which is a bytestream.
There is no structure on the i2c bus and the device is defined to
return a pair of bytes in this manner.

Alan
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