Re: [PATCH] Add be*/le* types without underscores

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Herbert Xu wrote:
> 
> Of course userspace won't see them since they're protected by
> #ifdef __KERNEL__.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This won't work, I think.

sparse basically always creates a _new_type_ for a bitwise typedef, so 
when you do

	typedef u16 __bitwise le16;
	typedef u16 __bitwise be16;
	...

your new "le16" will be _different_ from the old __le16, and you can't use 
it with "cpu_to_le16()" and other things.

I think that

	typedef __le16 le16;

should do what you want, but you should check.

		Linus
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