Re: [PATCHv4] fat: don't use custom hex_to_bin()

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Thu Sep 29 2011 - 15:35:47 EST


Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > perhaps:
>> >
>> > __le16 foo;
>> >
>> > if (hex2bin((u8 *)&foo, ip + 1, 2) < 0)
>> > return -EINVAL;
>> > *(u16 *)op = le16_to_cpu(foo);
>> >
>> > op += 2;
>>
>> I also thought about it. But I think it is not so good, like you had
>> mistake. It should actually be "__be16 foo" and "be16_to_cpu()".
>>
>> If we used sscanf() instead of hex2bin(), I might agree to use
>> "le16_to_cpu()" though.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Funny.
>
> I guess that's what I get for reading Andy's comment
> and coding that readably.
>
> + /* The ip contains 2 bytes in little
> + * endian format. We need to get them
> + * in native endian. */

In here, simply comment is wrong.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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