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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack
FromBenjamin Herrenschmidt <>
DateWed, 06 Dec 2006 08:41:49 +1100
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 19:49 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > David Miller wrote:
> >> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> >>>  DO NOT USE BITFIELDS FOR DATA ON THE WIRE !!!
> 
> Actually we do so in some places of the existing FireWire drivers.
> Didn't go wrong so far. :-)

Yeah, because you used 

#if defined __BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

and

#if defined __LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD

which relies on the fact that it -seems- that by luck, gcc only has two
representations around and they match little/big endian archs (though
have we verified that is always correct, especially between 32 and 64
bits archs ?)

It's still wrong to do.

Cheers,
Ben.


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