From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/23] arm: use the new byteorder headers
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:25:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080905102533.GA26458@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220608169.2985.305.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:49:29AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:03 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > include/linux/swab.h, include/linux/byteorder.h are in current
> > mainline which is all that these patches depend on.
>
> Er, it also depends on the patch which exports those headers to
> userspace, which isn't in Linus' tree yet.
How useful. If those generic headers are already in Linus' tree, and
are required for architectures to convert, why hasn't the patch which
exports them to userspace already been submitted?
However, another question: why should userspace be using a kernel header
file for byteswapping?
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-05 10:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 0:47 [PATCH 02/23] arm: use the new byteorder headers Harvey Harrison
2008-08-19 7:27 ` Russell King
2008-08-19 19:03 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-09-05 9:49 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-05 10:25 ` Russell King [this message]
2008-09-05 14:06 ` David Woodhouse
2008-09-05 14:37 ` Russell King
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