Re: [PATCH] x86: do not expose CONFIG_BSWAP to userspace

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> I take this as a strong indication that user space applications
> won't generally expect to get the bswap instruction from including
> the kernel headers. For the longest time, we actually had
> 
> /* For avoiding bswap on i386 */
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
> #include <linux/config.h>
> #endif
> 
> which I read as explicitly using the portable i386 version for
> all user space.
> 

This is true, although it would be nice to be able to generate BSWAP now 
when most distros compile with -march=i586 or higher.  The reason noone 
cared for the longest time was that noone wanted to compile userspace 
for anything other than the i386 baseline.

	-hpa