On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 03:27:35PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > > > > You are doing leXXX everywhere, that's VERSION_1 dependency. > > > > > virtio_cread will do byteswaps differently without VERSION_1. > > > > > Just don't go there. > > > So to clarify, you dislike using __virtio32 in virtio input header? > > Well, as I understand things __virtio32 implies byteorder depends on > whenever we are using VERSION_1 or not. And non-transitional drivers > should not need it as everything is by definition little endian. > > So, yes, your suggestion to just require VERSION_1 in the driver implies > in my eyes that there should be no reason to use __virtio32 instead of > __le32. > > Or do I miss something here? > > cheers, > Gerd > You are right but then if you do require VERSION_1 then __virtio32 becomes identical to __le32. There's some runtime overhead as we check on each access, but it shouldn't matter here, right? I guess we could add virtio_cread_le - is this what you'd like? -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
