From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 03/10] tools: Add le_direct/be_direct methods for unaligned access
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:41:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53979796.40205@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUvN1kYB=Z+wmPfbJawWSHb-r5NhmYLV1ZTxOWmHkanHw@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/10/2014 04:33 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> Ah, sneaky.
>
> Would it make sense to put a comment in this file (and similar files)
> indicating that they must only be included on architectures of the
> appropriate endianness?
>
That might make sense, yes, although I don't think we do that for the
kernel variants.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-10 23:13 [PATCH RFC 00/10] tools: Revamp the unaligned endian access functions H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 01/10] tools: Remove double-underscore symbols from user space byteshift functions H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 02/10] tools: Create <tools/unaligned.h> and an unaligned subdirectory H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 03/10] tools: Add le_direct/be_direct methods for unaligned access H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-10 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-10 23:41 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 04/10] tools: Add packed struct method for unaligned references H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 05/10] tools: Add <endian.h> libc support " H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 06/10] tools: Add gcc __builtin_bswap*() " H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 07/10] tools: Remove leading underscores from header guards H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 08/10] tools: Move unaligned common infrastructure into <tools/unaligned.h> H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 09/10] tools: Add common infrastructure for byte swapping H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 23:13 ` [PATCH RFC 10/10] tools: Use reasonable defaults for the default access H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-11 19:21 ` [PATCH RFC 00/10] tools: Revamp the unaligned endian access functions Sam Ravnborg
2014-06-11 21:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-13 20:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
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