Re: LDM code query

[Anton Altaparmakov]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Nasir Hossain wrote:
> can someone tell me what this macro does :
>
> __be64_to_cpu()
> __be32_to_cpu()
> __be16_to_cpu()
>
> something to do with big endian (i guess).
>
> found this while going thru the ldmutil (LDM) code.

You guess correctly.  These macros convert big endian numbers to cpu
format, just like the __leXX_to_cpu() convert little endian to cpu format.

Best regards,

	Anton
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