netdev - Re: [PATCH] tipc: Use the appropriate swab helper rather than an internal helper

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Message-Id: <1218601440.30194.108.camel@brick>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:23:59 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	per.liden@...csson.com, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
	allan.stephens@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: Use the appropriate swab helper rather than an
	internal helper

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 21:20 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:05:47 -0700 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > ___generally means I am an internal implementation detail, don't use
> > me.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
> > ---
> > Sorry for breaking the build Andrew, my testing has been with all the __constant
> > versions in-tree removed.
> > 
> >  net/tipc/subscr.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/net/tipc/subscr.c b/net/tipc/subscr.c
> > index 0326d30..f5da05d 100644
> > --- a/net/tipc/subscr.c
> > +++ b/net/tipc/subscr.c
> > @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static struct top_srv topsrv = { 0 };
> >  
> >  static u32 htohl(u32 in, int swap)
> >  {
> > -	return swap ? (u32)___constant_swab32(in) : in;
> > +	return swap ? (u32)swab32(in) : in;
> >  }
> 
> yes, that's what I did too, only I dropped the
> seems-to-me-to-be-unneeded (u32) cast.

I made the mistake of folding this bit into the series that removes all
users of the __constant_ helpers as I forgot it was a build breaker.
That's why I wasn't seeing it here.

Harvey

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