linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: do not expose CONFIG

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Message-Id: <1233185764.5322.0.camel@brick>
Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:04 -0800
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: do not expose CONFIG_BSWAP to userspace

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:27 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > Well, that's unfortunate, how about we just export the BSWAP version
> > unconditionally and hope pure i386 just goes away someday?
> > 
> 
> Well, we already have MOVBE coming up, too...
> 

Is someone already working on an __arch_swab{16|32|64}p to use them?

Harvey

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