From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 28 11:24:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96D537B401; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:24:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BEFA43F75; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:24:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1SJOY1o072801; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1SJOYcm000668; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1SJOYGc000667; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:24:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:24:34 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Nate Lawson Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, mike@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 64 bit endian routines Message-ID: <20030228192434.GA545@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030228051713.GA1062@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <200302281740.h1SHeZv8069977@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302281740.h1SHeZv8069977@freefall.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 09:40:35AM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:45:44PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote: > > Both scsi and geom implement unaligned access functions > that perform byte > ordering. I never intended to supplant > them with __bswap*(). What I want > is for machine/endian.h > to have functions that provide 16-64 bit endian > conversions > in both aligned and unaligned access forms. After these > functions > are there, I'd like us to unify use of them and > remove driver-private > versions. > > Is this more clear > now? > > Crystal :-) > > Heh, I hope I didn't sound too forceful. It was just a straightforward > question, not a diatribe. :) No worries. It's too late to realize that there might be a disconnect if you are using blunt objects to get your point across. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message