linux-kernel - Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.10-rc1 (um)

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Date:	Wed, 15 May 2013 08:50:51 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	User-mode Linux Kernel Development 
	<user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Tony Breeds <tony@...eyournoodle.com>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.10-rc1 (um)

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> So htobe32 etc were introduced in glibc 2.9 - our build environment is
> glibc 2.3 ... Documentation/Changes does not specify a minimum version of
> glibc.

This is a UML "requirement", not a generic Linux build environment
requirement.

Introduced by

commit d824d06328904f610b47652dcd488392f2fc62b6
Author: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Thu Apr 5 23:35:03 2012 -0400

    um: switch cow_user.h to htobe{32,64}/betoh{32,64}

    ... rather than open-coding the 64bit versions.  endian.h has those guys.

    Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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