MPC8349ea Random Device Generator driver
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Thu Jun 7 09:54:40 EST 2007
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:32:19PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Olof Johansson wrote:
>
> > - you can never assign a __le16 type to any other integer type or any
> > other bitwise type. You'd get a warnign about incompatible types. Makes
> > sense, no?
>
> Then why do the in_be functions return an unsigned int instead of a __be type? Isn't that
> effectively removing the endian-ness from the type?
Because they read a big endian register and returns the contents in the
native byte order for the machine.
-Olof
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