linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812181208070.14014@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:09:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, bluebird@...too.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace



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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