Subject: Re: endian-swapping

From: David Edelsohn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 20:56:23 -0500

>>>>> Hollis R Blanchard writes:

Hollis> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> 
>> Linux already provides macros like le16_to_cpu(), etc. for this. 

Hollis> For the sake of someone (like me) who doesn't know how to use these, can you
Hollis> give an example?

	See drivers/net/pcnet32.c for one example of its use.  There are
no #ifdef's like NetBSD uses.  le16_to_cpu() is a no-op on LE machines, so
one uses it directly like 

short x = le16_to_cpu(dev_flag);

Hollis> Also, the macros are in which header? I'm having trouble finding them too...

	The macros seem to be included via <asm/bitops.h> which then
include <linux/byteorder/big_endian.h> (for example).

David

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