Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752414AbaFFVOm (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:14:42 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f182.google.com ([209.85.128.182]:53257 "EHLO mail-ve0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751635AbaFFVOl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:14:41 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <201406042235.s54MZgwP020553@terminus.zytor.com> <20140606140017.afb7f91142f66cb3dd13c186@linux-foundation.org> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 14:14:20 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16 To: Linus Torvalds , Stephen Rothwell Cc: Andrew Morton , "H. Peter Anvin" , Cyrill Gorcunov , Peter Anvin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Sasha Levin , Stefani Seibold , Thomas Gleixner , Pavel Emelyanov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> The only real downside to that would be the chance of bitrot if that >> code isn't getting used on native builds. > > Sure. Does anybody really care? > > You could obviously just open-code the things, but the fact is, > "le64toh()" isn't exactly a standard function anyway, so now that I > see it needed I go "yeah, that's clearly completely unacceptable". > > I'd much rather say "screw cross-compiling" (because let's face it, > nobody sane cross-compiles x86 on anything else) than say "screw old > machines". Tell that to Stephen Rothwell, who apparently cross-compiles x86 on ppc on a regular basis :) I'll send a patch. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/