Re: [PATCH/RFC] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:59 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote:
> > > +struct x_info_blk_hdr {
> > > +   __u8  npar;
> > > +   __u8  flags;
> > > +   __u16 tslice;
> > > +   __u16 phys_cpus;
> > > +   __u16 this_part;
> > > +   __u64 curtod1;
> > > +   __u64 curtod2;
> > > +   char reserved[40];
> > > +} __attribute__ ((packed));
> >
> > Couldn't you use endianess annotated types for these?
> 
> What are "endianess annotated types" ?

For example, __le16 and __be16 (search for __bitwise in
<linux/types.h>). You can use sparse to check for endianess erros in
your code if you us them.

				Pekka

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