Constant byteorder macros.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20000121154727.A2247 en ZhengHe.augustin.thierry>
By author:    Francois-Rene Rideau <fare en tunes.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Anyway, in such cases as this one where a satisfying patch is available,
> it costs more to argue about the issue than to apply the patch. Doesn't it?
> 

No, this isn't a cleanup.  This is going backwards toward a
harder-to-read kernel.  __builtin_constant_p() is so widely used in
the kernel that saying that we should avoid it for <instance foo> is
silly.  Use it throughout and make the code easier to read, thanks.

	-hpa
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