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From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	isdn@linux-pingi.de, Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isdn: disable HiSax NetJet driver on microblaze arch
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 13:27:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1434972453.4568.8.camel@chaos.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4jdc58w.fsf@gmail.com>

Le Sunday 21 June 2015 à 19:59 +0200, Nicolai Stange a écrit :
> David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> >> Note that endianess on microblaze is not determined through Kconfig,
> >> but by means of a compiler provided CPP macro, namely __MICROBLAZEEL__.
> >> However, gcc defaults to big endianess on that platform.
> > Applied, but we're long overdue for an across-the-board-available
> > endianness Kconfig option that can flat out be used in these situations.
> > The current way this is handled is at best, a mess.

I fully agree.

> Thanks!
> 
> Regarding the general Kconfig endianess symbol, I will do another patch
> based on the information of
>   git grep '_endian\.h' -- arch/
> and supply every arch with either of CONFIG_CPU_{LITTLE,BIG}_ENDIAN if
> lacking.

Note that Chen Gang (Cc'd) attempted the same almost a year ago:
http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7540/
then:
http://marc.info/?t=140958656400002&r=1&w=2

The idea was great IMHO but it did not work out, and I can't remember
why.

-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-22 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-17  1:05 [PATCH] isdn: disable HiSax NetJet driver on microblaze arch Nicolai Stange
2015-06-17  6:53 ` Jean Delvare
2015-06-17 10:58   ` Nicolai Stange
2015-06-21 16:54 ` David Miller
2015-06-21 17:59   ` Nicolai Stange
2015-06-22 11:27     ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2015-06-22 12:36       ` Nicolai Stange

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