Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753463AbYLRUr4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:47:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752297AbYLRUro (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:47:44 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34423 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752232AbYLRUrn (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:47:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:47:28 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Harvey Harrison cc: Andrew Morton , bluebird@gentoo.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4943DAD6.7070402@gentoo.org> <20081216.011334.124918024.davem@davemloft.net> <1229564779.6481.26.camel@brick> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 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 On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. Never mind, since we end up having to export it to user space (do we?) we can't depend on the config.h file, nor can we pollute the name space. Oh well. Linus -- 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/