Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752533AbaFFVPe (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:15:34 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:62136 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752006AbaFFVPd (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:15:33 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.98,991,1392192000"; d="scan'208";a="543811448" Message-ID: <53922F74.20406@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:15:32 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds , Andy Lutomirski CC: Andrew Morton , Cyrill Gorcunov , Peter Anvin , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Sasha Levin , Stefani Seibold , Thomas Gleixner , Pavel Emelyanov Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16 References: <201406042235.s54MZgwP020553@terminus.zytor.com> <20140606140017.afb7f91142f66cb3dd13c186@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/06/2014 02:13 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". > I'm thinking we should just carry the support functions with us, we already have some of those in tools/include. Working on a patchset for this. -hpa -- 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/