Re: [PATCH]: ext4: fix big endian

From: JÃrn Engel
Date: Mon Nov 10 2008 - 14:32:26 EST


On Mon, 10 November 2008 10:09:38 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>
> I'd say that it's getting close to just being able to turn it on by
> default. A lot of the really verbose offenders have been annotated
> now, drivers/ieee1394, drivers/scsi, drivers/message and some of the
> older areas of drivers/net will get noisy, I was going to send an RFC
> for 2.6.29 and continue to chip away at the output.

My argument for the define is that it doesn't hurt much if endian checks
are enabled globally, but helps a lot if they are not. So until it is
clear that endian checks will be enabled, it may still be a good idea.

JÃrn

--
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
-- unknown
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/