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Message-ID: <5404A66E.509@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:01:34 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com>
CC:	eparis@...hat.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	zhenglong.cai@...c.com.cn, khilman@...aro.org, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	mcgrof@...e.com, fabf@...net.be,
	"dhowells@...hat.com" <dhowells@...hat.com>, pefoley2@...oley.com,
	mgorman@...e.de, biederm@...ssion.com,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Add ENDIAN attributes for all architectures
 using

On 09/01/2014 09:08 AM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>>>
>> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
>> index ac033c3..f301cc8 100644
>> --- a/init/Kconfig
>> +++ b/init/Kconfig
>> @@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ config CONSTRUCTORS
>>  config IRQ_WORK
>>  	bool
>>  
>> +config CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>> +	bool
>> +
>> +config CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> +	bool
> 
> Perhaps you should take a cursory look at what already exists in tree
> before blindly trying to add more to it?
> 
> $ git grep CPU_BIG_ENDIAN | wc -l
> 88
> 

The whole point of this patchset is to make these already widely-used
options universal across the tree.

	-hpa


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