On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:15:55PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > It would be much better to use __be32 and __be64, so you get better > > type checking, and you will catch bugs caused by forgetting to use > > be32_to_cpu, et. al. > > The technique Artem uses is derived from what I do in JFFS2. It predates > the use of sparse to catch such errors, and works in gcc for _everyone_ > without having to do anything special (like run sparse).
But __be32 will catch the same errors these days because the be/le types use __bitwise now, right? So use of the __be32/__be64 types should be preferred since it also will work with sparse, I would think. Regards, - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/