Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: opcode field of sent commands is little endian.

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On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:20 +0100, David Laight wrote: 
> > > > Fine with me, though FWIW that not only doesn't use
> > > > __constant_cpu_to_le16() but actually swaps the non-constant value.
> > > 
> > > Don't see what point you are trying to make here. Swapping the value
> > > from the actual command structure is always fine with me.
> > 
> > The point is that the result of swapping a constant value is just
> > another constant value, whereas the fix in mainline swaps a value from
> > memory. Not a big deal.
> 
> Surely, but surely, the definition of cpu_to_le16() uses
> gcc 'magic' to determine that the argument is a constant
> and then automatically selects the 'constant' form.

It can only do that if the argument is constant in the first place
though. :)


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