From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 14:44:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 14:44:14 -0400 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:3342 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 14:44:07 -0400 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Message-ID: <3AEF03C5.A8531DAB@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 11:43:17 -0700 Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz , Alan Cox , kernel list , torvalds@transmeta.com, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Subject: Re: iso9660 endianness cleanup patch In-Reply-To: <200105011440.QAA12760@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> <3AEEFD7F.3E7C6B3@transmeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hpa@transmeta.com wrote: > > Oh bother, you're right of course. We need some kind of standardized > macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer. It can > just do the dereference (e.g. x86), use left/right accesses (e.g. MIPS), > or do it by byte (others). > > Ports people, what do you think? > My, my, my... I'm really 100% alert this morning. Before anyone clues me in, I did find when I actually bothered looking. New patch in the making. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt