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SubjectRe: Constant byteorder macros.
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Followup to:  <20000121154727.A2247@ZhengHe.augustin.thierry>
By author: Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Anyway, in such cases as this one where a satisfying patch is available,
> it costs more to argue about the issue than to apply the patch. Doesn't it?
>

No, this isn't a cleanup. This is going backwards toward a
harder-to-read kernel. __builtin_constant_p() is so widely used in
the kernel that saying that we should avoid it for <instance foo> is
silly. Use it throughout and make the code easier to read, thanks.

-hpa
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