From: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
eparis@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn, khilman@linaro.org,
ak@linux.intel.com, mcgrof@suse.com, fabf@skynet.be,
"dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
pefoley2@pefoley.com, mgorman@suse.de, biederm@xmission.com,
"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Add ENDIAN attributes for all architectures using
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 06:41:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54176B0E.7080208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201409151555.03997.arnd@arndb.de>
On 09/15/2014 09:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2014, Chen Gang wrote:
>> Hello Maintainers:
>>
>> Is this patch worthy enough to be applied?
>>
>> Welcome any ideas, suggestions or completions.
>
> I find it hard to judge whether it's worth it or not. You gave one example
> for a driver that needs this, but what would be your estimate on how
> many other drivers have the same problem, either producing a #warning
> or misbehaving if neither symbol is set?
>
For me, it is also hard to judge, so at present, we can assume it is not
worthy enough for other individual modules.
> Having all architectures consistently report the endianess would be nice,
> but we have to weigh the advantages (currently broken code, potential
> simplifications) against the regression risk.
>
Yeah, so our 'goal' is OK, but we need focus on 'how'.
At present, firstly need modify 'init/Kconfig', and then scan all
architectures one by one, let each related patch pass checking by the
related maintainers (which can avoid the risk).
Thanks.
--
Chen Gang
Open share and attitude like air water and life which God blessed
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-15 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-01 15:46 [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Add ENDIAN attributes for all architectures using Chen Gang
2014-09-01 16:08 ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-09-01 17:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-02 1:44 ` Chen Gang
2014-09-02 5:17 ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-09-02 6:13 ` Chen Gang
2014-09-03 11:47 ` Chen Gang
2014-09-14 9:08 ` Chen Gang
2014-09-15 13:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-15 22:41 ` Chen Gang [this message]
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