From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753138AbYIEKbS (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:31:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751764AbYIEKbF (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:31:05 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:51292 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751731AbYIEKbE (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:31:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:25:33 +0100 From: Russell King To: David Woodhouse Cc: Harvey Harrison , Andrew Morton , LKML , Khem Raj Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/23] arm: use the new byteorder headers Message-ID: <20080905102533.GA26458@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1219106875.17033.55.camel@brick> <20080819072715.GB30521@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1219172580.17033.87.camel@brick> <1220608169.2985.305.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1220608169.2985.305.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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: