Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] byteorder: remove direct includes of linux/byteorder/swab[b].h | From | Harvey Harrison <> | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:37:27 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 13:15 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:23:38 -0700 > Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote: > > > A consolidated implementation will provide this generically through > > asm/byteorder, remove direct includes to avoid breakage when the > > changeover to the new implementation occurs. > > > > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> > > --- > > Andrew, this hunk seems to have been lost when you sent it to Linus, it's possible > > you applied this on top of the -next tree where this file has moved, but the tests > > tree hasn't been pulled yet. > > > > The rest of the patch went into mainline as 1d8cca44b6a244b7e378546d719041819049a0f9 > > > > Grump. It happens sometimes. People putting stuff into linux-next and > then not merging it into the next kernel. > > Should this be linux/byteorder.h? (Which weirdly doesn't include > asm/byteorder.h).
As the implementations all used to live in asm/byteorder.h before consolidating, it needs to be asm until all arches convert. At that time we can do the flip and let linux/ be directly includable.
Harvey
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