From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261847AbVADVdu (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:33:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262034AbVADVS1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:18:27 -0500 Received: from mail1.kontent.de ([81.88.34.36]:20198 "EHLO Mail1.KONTENT.De") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262118AbVADVOh (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:14:37 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum To: Matt Mackall Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] delete unused file Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:14:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Alan Cox , domen@coderock.org, akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20041226153257.0F3501F126@trashy.coderock.org> <1104081178.15994.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050104210342.GA2995@waste.org> In-Reply-To: <20050104210342.GA2995@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200501042214.25912.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2005 22:03 schrieb Matt Mackall: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 05:13:00PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Sul, 2004-12-26 at 15:33, domen@coderock.org wrote: > > > Remove nowhere referenced file. (egrep "filename\." didn't find anything) > > > > This file is there for a reason - it completes the set of endian types > > should anyone port to a mixed endian system. > > Please name one such box that doesn't support a more sensible order > and is vaguely Linux-capable. The PDP-11 does not qualify, as it's > only 16-bit and could be made to DTRT for 32-bit values in the > compiler if you were going to go to the trouble of making "int" and > "void *" 32 bits on a 16-bit arch and then trying to fit the > resulting bloated code in the 4MB the later PDP-11s supported. You don't a machine that will have the endianness. As long as you exchange data in that format, you'll have to convert endianness. Regards Oliver