Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2007 09:58:25 +0300 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros |
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Al Viro wrote: > BTW, you can simply typedef __be16 ubi16_t; etc. and define conversion > functions as cpu_to_ubi16(x) being (__force ubi16_t)cpu_to_be16(x), etc. > > sparse will do all checks just fine, you still have bitwise operations > (might or might be not relevant in your case) and for gcc it simply > becomes __be16, etc - i.e. an integer type.
Err, what is the benefit of it? If we relied on sparce, why not would we be just using __be16 directly?
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