[PATCH] Use REV and REV16 for byte swapping on ARMv6+

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Mon Oct 26 07:05:24 EDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:02:46AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 12:13 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 02:29:42PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> > > ARMv6 introduced the REV and REV16 instructions that reverse bytes in
> > > words and halfwords.  Use them for the arch-specific implementation of
> > > the byte swapping helpers on ARMv6+.
> > 
> > Please submit to the patch system.  Note that you can now use this format,
> > and just put the "KernelVersion:" header somewhere in before the 'diff'
> > line.
> 
> (OT) Does it also now parse a "From:" line (if the author differs from
> the sender)?

No.  Reasons explained previously.



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