From: xerofoify@gmail.com (nick)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Fwd: Re: Endianness Questions
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 22:09:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <540526D6.5030901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546fce43-4d4f-46f4-b9dd-789b37650167@email.android.com>
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Subject: Re: Endianness Questions
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:34:10 -0400
From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
To: nick <xerofoify@gmail.com>, kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
On September 1, 2014 1:09:25 AM EDT, nick <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hey Guys,
>I have a question about ordering of bits with the types for signed and
>unsigned in the kernel tree.
>I am wondering if my list below is a good list of major areas of the
>kernel that need variable ordering
>based to a certain endianness. If there are any more I am missing
>please let me known.
>Cheers Nick
>1. Certain Hardware Protocols like USB and PCI
>2. Network Protocols
>3. Keeping Data in a certain order preservation like for file systems
>
ATA and SCSI deserve explicit call out. Where do you put them in the above list?
Fyi, I consider one a hardware protocol and the other a network protocol. I let you figure out which is which.
Greg
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
ATA is under hardware and SCSI is for networking.
Cheers Nick
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-01 5:09 Endianness Questions nick
2014-09-01 12:34 ` Greg Freemyer
2014-09-02 2:09 ` nick [this message]
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