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* Endianness Questions
@ 2014-09-01  5:09 nick
  2014-09-01 12:34 ` Greg Freemyer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: nick @ 2014-09-01  5:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernelnewbies

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 

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* Endianness Questions
  2014-09-01  5:09 Endianness Questions nick
@ 2014-09-01 12:34 ` Greg Freemyer
  2014-09-02  2:09   ` Fwd: " nick
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Greg Freemyer @ 2014-09-01 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernelnewbies



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
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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* Fwd: Re: Endianness Questions
  2014-09-01 12:34 ` Greg Freemyer
@ 2014-09-02  2:09   ` nick
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: nick @ 2014-09-02  2:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernelnewbies




-------- Forwarded Message --------
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
-- 
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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