linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 03/10] tools: Add le_direct/be

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:41:10 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
CC:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 03/10] tools: Add le_direct/be_direct methods for
 unaligned access

On 06/10/2014 04:33 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> Ah, sneaky.
> 
> Would it make sense to put a comment in this file (and similar files)
> indicating that they must only be included on architectures of the
> appropriate endianness?
> 

That might make sense, yes, although I don't think we do that for the
kernel variants.

	-hpa


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