[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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