From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR  system?
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:29:23 +0100
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> Endianess comes into play when send/receiving multibyte integers on
> platforms with different endianess.

It's the case when you're sending this data to a machine with
a different endianness. For example, in a network or to another CPU in
e.g. add-on card.
Ioctls are not affected by this, since both ends are the same.

Obviously you can be affected if you try to access data as integers in
one point and as arrays of bytes in the other, but it has nothing to do
with ioctls.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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