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From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	bluebird@gentoo.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:53:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1229633635.6481.31.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812181246420.14014@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 12:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > I think it would be better to just make it a config option, call it 
> > CONFIG_[LITTLE|BIG]_ENDIAN and set it up in the architecture Kconfig file. 
> > I think some of the people who can set it dynamically (or where it depends 
> > on the target machine) already effectively do that.
> 
> Never mind, since we end up having to export it to user space (do we?) we 
> can't depend on the config.h file, nor can we pollute the name space.
> 
> Oh well.

I'm still having a bit of a think on this if we can avoid it.  But I
think we're stuck with needing a different symbol. :-/

Harvey


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-18 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4943DAD6.7070402@gentoo.org>
2008-12-16  9:13 ` Compiling glibc with 2.6.28 linux headers David Miller
2008-12-17  1:22   ` Harvey Harrison
2008-12-18  1:46   ` [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace Harvey Harrison
2008-12-18 20:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-18 20:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-12-18 20:53         ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-12-19  8:08         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-12-19 16:37           ` Harvey Harrison
2009-01-06 10:23     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-01-06 16:41       ` Harvey Harrison

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