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@. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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