Constant byteorder macros.

[Alan Cox]

> > b/w/d would make more sense in PCI nomenclature. Too late 
> 
> Why's it too late? Are these names specified in the PCI spec, or just the 
> Linux code? 

In Linux. The b/w/d is the PCI specification "byte word doubleword" sequence

> We could add {write,read}{8,16,32,64} routines now, #define the old 
> read[bwl] accordingly, and in early 2.5 start to warn about the use of the old 
> versions.

How about fixing the 2.3.x bugs and getting 2.4 out before that ?


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