On Thu, 29 May 2008 20:37:40 -0700 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 19:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:26:18 -0400 Mark Lord <liml@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > otoh, > > > > - I think the args are backwards > > > > It was made to look like put_unaligned_* and put_unaligned() > > I think of it as put_le16(source, dest) fn(dest, src) is a well-known C idiom which the kernel went and broke in lots of places :( It maps nicely onto dest = src as a mnemonic. But given that the compiler will reliably barf if they are backwards it's a minor thing. > > - I don't like the use of the put_*() namespace. It makes it look > > like a uaccess operation. > > I'm flexible...although I'd probably get nailed to a cross for changing > it again so soon. (the unaligned versions, that is) We'll live. (I'm not a big fan of the patches, btw. It's more of an "oh groan, because it's there I suppose we really ought to do this" sort of thing. (strong objections would save me a lot of work (looks hopefully at inbox))). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
