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From: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	eparis@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	zhenglong.cai@cs2c.com.cn, khilman@linaro.org,
	ak@linux.intel.com, mcgrof@suse.com, fabf@skynet.be,
	"dhowells@redhat.com" <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	pefoley2@pefoley.com, mgorman@suse.de, biederm@xmission.com,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Add ENDIAN attributes for all architectures using
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 06:41:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54176B0E.7080208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201409151555.03997.arnd@arndb.de>

On 09/15/2014 09:55 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2014, Chen Gang wrote:
>> Hello Maintainers:
>>
>> Is this patch worthy enough to be applied?
>>
>> Welcome any ideas, suggestions or completions.
> 
> I find it hard to judge whether it's worth it or not. You gave one example
> for a driver that needs this, but what would be your estimate on how
> many other drivers have the same problem, either producing a #warning
> or misbehaving if neither symbol is set?
> 

For me, it is also hard to judge, so at present, we can assume it is not
worthy enough for other individual modules.

> Having all architectures consistently report the endianess would be nice,
> but we have to weigh the advantages (currently broken code, potential
> simplifications) against the regression risk.
> 

Yeah, so our 'goal' is OK, but we need focus on 'how'.

At present, firstly need modify 'init/Kconfig', and then scan all
architectures one by one, let each related patch pass checking by the
related maintainers (which can avoid the risk).


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

Open share and attitude like air water and life which God blessed

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-15 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 15:46 [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Add ENDIAN attributes for all architectures using Chen Gang
2014-09-01 16:08 ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-09-01 17:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-09-02  1:44     ` Chen Gang
2014-09-02  5:17     ` Paul Gortmaker
2014-09-02  6:13       ` Chen Gang
2014-09-03 11:47         ` Chen Gang
2014-09-14  9:08           ` Chen Gang
2014-09-15 13:55             ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-15 22:41               ` Chen Gang [this message]

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