On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 17:33 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:39:25PM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > As an example, in the write command handling in achba.c, a patch similar to the following
> > (assumes the existence of a __be24 type somewhere):
>
> What type could be defined to be '__be24'? Would
>
> typedef struct {
> unsigned char data[3];
> } __be24;
__packed
>
> do the trick? It's not an integral type, but I'm not sure if that matters.
>
> > + cmnd_lba = unaligned_be24_to_cpup(&tmp->lba) & 0x001FFFFF;
>
> That might be easier to read if you're using a 500-column terminal. For
> the rest of us,
> cmnd_lba = scsi_get_u24(cmnd + 2) & 0x1FFFFF;
> is much easier to read.
Suggestions welcome on shorter common names for the unaligned helpers.
Cheers,
Harvey
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