Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Constant byteorder macros. | Date | Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:23:35 +0000 |
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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > There is a standard for htonl() and it returns a 32bit type.
That doesn't mean we have to provide or use it _within_ the kernel.
> b/w/d would make more sense in PCI nomenclature. Too late
Why's it too late? Are these names specified in the PCI spec, or just the Linux code?
We could add {write,read}{8,16,32,64} routines now, #define the old read[bwl] accordingly, and in early 2.5 start to warn about the use of the old versions.
-- dwmw2
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