Re: [PATCH] NIPQUAD macro broken on big endian

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:36:40 -0700 (PDT)


On 9 Oct 1998, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> |> On 7 Oct 1998, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> |> >
> |> > The NIPQUAD makro is broken on big endian machines. The argument is a
> |> > number in network byte order.
> |>
> |> Stop sending me this patch. I've rejected it before, for good reason.
>
> This is the first time i have sent you this patch. How can you have
> already rejected it???

Because of the f*cking vger braindamage.

People have sent me patches from vger, and when I tell them that they are
broken, nobody fixes vger.

Doesn't anybody see what's wrong here?

Linus

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