From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system? Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:29:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <9e4733910911280906if1191a1jd3d055e8b781e45c@mail.gmail.com> <4B116954.5050706@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <9e4733910911281058i1b28f33bh64c724a89dcb8cf5@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910911281214o614fd912wbbe5dcc50108aeea@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:35399 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753626AbZK1U3U (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:29:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9e4733910911281214o614fd912wbbe5dcc50108aeea@mail.gmail.com> (Jon Smirl's message of "Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:14:32 -0500") Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Jon Smirl Cc: Stefan Richter , Christoph Bartelmus , awalls@radix.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, j@jannau.net, jarod@redhat.com, jarod@wilsonet.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, maximlevitsky@gmail.com, mchehab@redhat.com, superm1@ubuntu.com Jon Smirl writes: > Endianess comes into play when send/receiving multibyte integers on > platforms with different endianess. It's the case when you're sending this data to a machine with a different endianness. For example, in a network or to another CPU in e.g. add-on card. Ioctls are not affected by this, since both ends are the same. Obviously you can be affected if you try to access data as integers in one point and as arrays of bytes in the other, but it has nothing to do with ioctls. -- Krzysztof Halasa