Re: [RFC] Normalizing byteorder/unaligned access API

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:53:11PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> In addition, there are some subsystems (scsi) that are looking into some
> differently sized endian helpers (be24) and it may be worthwhile to have
> some agreement whether it is worth making them common infrastructure and
> whether they should present a similar API to the common byteorder/unaligned
> API.

I still think SCSI should have its own accessors, even if they're
just wrappers around the common BE code.

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