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Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:23:23 +0100
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       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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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}

Ping.  What is the status of this?

> Converted the arches in mainline that have already moved to the
> new header, as the other arches merge the will need simlar
> fixups.

In latest git powerpc, s390 and x86 are merged and need this fix too.

cheers,
  Gerd
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