Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:09:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, bluebird@gentoo.org,
        sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> glibc headers define both __LITTLE_ENDIAN and __BIG_ENDIAN
> which was tripping the check in linux/byteorder.h.  Let's
> just stay out of userspace's way and use __KERN_{endian}

Gaah, ugly.

I think it would be better to just make it a config option, call it 
CONFIG_[LITTLE|BIG]_ENDIAN and set it up in the architecture Kconfig file. 
I think some of the people who can set it dynamically (or where it depends 
on the target machine) already effectively do that.

Hmm?

		Linus
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