Re: [PATCH 01/23] byteorder: only use linux/swab.h

[Harvey Harrison]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 14:08 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> >
> > The first step to make swab.h a regular header that will
> > include an asm/swab.h with arch overrides.
> 
> Btw, was there some reason why you didn't just do the <asm/swab.h> files 
> first? That would seem to simplify the whole sequence, and in fact it 
> would also allow me to just apply all the "create asm/swab.h" patches 
> first regardless of any other work..
> 
> 		Linus


My goal was the elimination of the linux/byteorder.h you objected to while
not breaking the arch overrides of the arches that had already converted.

So it's not just moving to swab.h, it also eliminates the linux/byteorder.h
includes, for this to work, I need to fix swab.h first.

Harvey

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