Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933194AbbDXOlL (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:41:11 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:35408 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755073AbbDXOlH (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:41:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:41:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Olaf Hering cc: Linus Torvalds , Havoc Pennington , Michele Curti , Austin S Hemmelgarn , Andy Lutomirski , "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , One Thousand Gnomes , Tom Gundersen , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Daniel Mack , David Herrmann , Djalal Harouni Subject: Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus In-Reply-To: <20150424143212.GA27730@aepfle.de> Message-ID: References: <20150414175534.GB3974@kroah.com> <87oamhmbso.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <553788A9.6090006@gmail.com> <20150422143515.GA23155@dellaz> <20150424143212.GA27730@aepfle.de> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 21 On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Olaf Hering 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? Becase the architecture that is running on overwhelming majority of today's world computers is little-endian, and therefore has to convert all the time. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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/