netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: remove unnecessary byteshifting, calculate crc in big-endian

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Message-Id: <1216322461.6029.3.camel@brick>
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:21:01 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: remove unnecessary byteshifting, calculate crc
	in	big-endian

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 08:43 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:59 -0400, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> >> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >>> -	__u32 crc32 = 0;
> >>> +	__be32 crc32 = cpu_to_be32(0);
> >> Does this actually do anything?
> >>
> >> Otherwise, good clean-up. Thanks
> >>
> > 
> > Keeps sparse happy.
> 
> Wouldn't just a (__force __be32)0 do the same thing and
> avoid useless byte swapping on little endian?
> 

Vlad, do you want me to revise the patch, or were you taking it as is?

Harvey

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