Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755716AbbDXOcm (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:32:42 -0400 Received: from mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([81.169.146.216]:42130 "EHLO mo4-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755233AbbDXOck (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:32:40 -0400 X-RZG-AUTH: :P2EQZWCpfu+qG7CngxMFH1J+yackYocTD1iAi8x+OWi/zfN1cLnBYfssVo1SFZSlV1o5+W2fPusosI8UFDsorAjgj3RvrQ== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:32:12 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Havoc Pennington , Michele Curti , Austin S Hemmelgarn , Andy Lutomirski , "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , One Thousand Gnomes , Tom Gundersen , Jiri Kosina , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Daniel Mack , David Herrmann , Djalal Harouni Subject: Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus Message-ID: <20150424143212.GA27730@aepfle.de> References: <20150414175534.GB3974@kroah.com> <87oamhmbso.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <553788A9.6090006@gmail.com> <20150422143515.GA23155@dellaz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.rev6346 (2013-10-29) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 556 Lines: 15 On Wed, Apr 22, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Conditional byte order is worse than silly - it's terminally stupid. > In other words, think networking, which statically just decided to use > big-endian. Sure, that was the wrong choice in the end, but even Why was that wrong? Any pointers to further details? Olaf -- 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/