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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:13:45 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        marcel@xcllnt.net, mike@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 64 bit endian routines 
Message-ID:  <14953.1046412825@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:45:44 PST." <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org>, Nate Lawson writ
es:

>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.

I'm all for a unification.  I only made my private version in geom because
I couldn't get any responses when I raised the issue on arch@.

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