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    byteorder: only use linux/swab.h · 991c0e6d
    Harvey Harrison authored
    
    
    The first step to make swab.h a regular header that will
    include an asm/swab.h with arch overrides.
    
    Avoid the gratuitous differences introduced in the new
    linux/swab.h by naming the ___constant_swabXX bits and
    __fswabXX bits exactly as found in the old implementation
    in byteorder/swab[b].h
    
    Use this new swab.h in byteorder/[big|little]_endian.h and
    remove the two old swab headers.
    
    Although the inclusion of asm/byteorder.h looks strange in
    linux/swab.h, this will allow each arch to move the actual
    arch overrides for the swab bits in an asm file and then
    the includes can be cleaned up without requiring a flag day
    for all arches at once.
    
    Keep providing __fswabXX in case some userspace was using them
    directly, but the revised __swabXX should be used instead in
    any new code and will always do constant folding not dependent
    on the optimization level, which means the __constant versions
    can be phased out in-kernel.
    
    Arches that use the old-style arch macros will lose their
    optimized versions until they move to the new style, but at
    least they will still compile.  Many arches have already moved
    and the patches to move the remaining arches are trivial.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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