From: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Joanne Dow <jdow@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 10:13:14 +1000 (AEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82d25ec7-47cb-cb40-c800-892af48a71f6@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98267647-af04-d463-cb5d-c5d6b0a05777@gmail.com>
On Wed, 14 Jun 2023, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>
> The reason why only rdb_SummedLongs, rdb_BlockBytes and
> rdb_PartitionList are explicitly declared big endian is probably quite
> simple - nothing else was used by the Linux RDB parser. My patch adds
> rdb_CylBlocks to that list, so that ought to be changed to big endian,
> too.
>
> affs_hardblocks.h is a UAPI header - what are the rules and
> ramifications around changes to those? Might not be worth the hassle in
> the end.
>
I think it's safe to fix the UAPI header if we are talking about
endianness annotations that affect static checking and not code
generation. The existing annotations in that struct would appear to
support that notion, if indeed they were put there for the benefit of the
kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-15 0:13 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1539570747-19906-1-git-send-email-schmitzmic@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <1539570747-19906-3-git-send-email-schmitzmic@gmail.com>
2022-07-25 12:36 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support Martin Steigerwald
2022-07-25 23:03 ` Jens Axboe
2022-07-26 1:53 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-07-26 3:40 ` Jens Axboe
2022-07-26 3:58 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-08-21 20:59 ` Martin Steigerwald
2022-08-22 5:46 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-08-22 13:57 ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-22 20:39 ` Michael Schmitz
2022-08-22 20:41 ` Jens Axboe
2022-08-22 20:56 ` Michael Schmitz
2023-06-13 7:25 ` Martin Steigerwald
2023-06-13 8:18 ` Michael Schmitz
2023-06-13 10:57 ` Martin Steigerwald
2023-06-13 22:11 ` Michael Schmitz
2023-06-14 0:07 ` Finn Thain
2023-06-14 1:20 ` Michael Schmitz
2023-06-14 7:19 ` Martin Steigerwald
2023-06-14 8:43 ` Michael Schmitz
[not found] ` <05bd2c1b-a985-d935-a955-06a048d54c18@earthlink.net>
2023-06-14 19:46 ` Michael Schmitz
2023-06-15 0:13 ` Finn Thain [this message]
2023-06-15 1:06 ` Michael Schmitz
2023-06-15 4:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
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