RE: [PATCH 2.6] cciss typo fix

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:45 -0600, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote:
> Even if it were added to the compat header; is using __be32 correct in this context?

They should be.  The __be annotations track unconverted big endian
numbers.  be32_to_cpu checks that it's only taking __be annotated
variables (at least when sparse tracks it), so the cast is correct and
prevents sparse from warning.

James


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