linux-kernel - Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus

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Message-ID: <20150424150434.GB5553@aepfle.de>
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:04:34 +0200
From:	Olaf Hering <olaf@...fle.de>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Havoc Pennington <hp@...ox.com>,
	Michele Curti <michele.curti@...il.com>,
	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: Issues with capability bits and meta-data in kdbus

On Fri, Apr 24, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> Becase the architecture that is running on overwhelming majority of 
> today's world computers is little-endian, and therefore has to convert all 
> the time.

There is no swap-on-load/store to compensate for the odd decision?

Olaf
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