Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:31:36 +0100
From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel <joern@logfs.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
       Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>,
       Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
       linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian
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On Mon, 10 November 2008 10:09:38 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> 
> I'd say that it's getting close to just being able to turn it on by
> default.  A lot of the really verbose offenders have been annotated
> now, drivers/ieee1394, drivers/scsi, drivers/message and some of the
> older areas of drivers/net will get noisy, I was going to send an RFC
> for 2.6.29 and continue to chip away at the output.

My argument for the define is that it doesn't hurt much if endian checks
are enabled globally, but helps a lot if they are not.  So until it is
clear that endian checks will be enabled, it may still be a good idea.

Jörn

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