linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] device property: Implement device_is_big

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Message-ID: <2023110235-viewless-postage-9832@gregkh>
Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:58:53 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Daniel Scally <djrscally@...il.com>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] device property: Implement device_is_big_endian()

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 05:33:40PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 03:27:30PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 07:25:35AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 09:42:57PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > Some users want to use the struct device pointer to see if the
> > > > device is big endian in terms of Open Firmware specifications,
> > > > i.e. if it has a "big-endian" property, or if the kernel was
> > > > compiled for BE *and* the device has a "native-endian" property.
> > > > 
> > > > Provide inline helper for the users.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > 
> > Thank you, Greg.
> > 
> > Bart, would it be still possible to take this into next?
> > I would like to have at least this patch applied (with the first user)
> > to allow conversion of others (I have some more users of new API).
> 
> Okay, seems we missed v6.7 with this, can you then prepare an immutable
> branch / tag with this, so other maintainers can pull in case it's needed?
> (I have something against tty already and perhaps something else, let's
>  see.)

After -rc1 is out, I'll look into it, can't do anything until then,
sorry...

greg k-h