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

[Olaf Hering]

On Wed, Apr 22, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Conditional byte order is worse than silly - it's terminally stupid.

> In other words, think networking, which statically just decided to use
> big-endian. Sure, that was the wrong choice in the end, but even

Why was that wrong? Any pointers to further details?

Olaf
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