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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:40:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
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To: marcel@xcllnt.net, njl@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: 64 bit endian routines
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	Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:17:13 -0800
	From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
	To: Nate Lawson <njl@FreeBSD.org>
	Cc: mike@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
	Subject: Re: 64 bit endian routines
	References: <20030228041849.GB813@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> <200302280445.h1S4jifs099792@freefall.freebsd.org>

	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 :-)

	-- 
	 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

Heh, I hope I didn't sound too forceful.  It was just a straightforward
question, not a diatribe.  :)

-Nate

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