Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:25:33 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/23] arm: use the new byteorder headers |
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:49:29AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:03 -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote: > > include/linux/swab.h, include/linux/byteorder.h are in current > > mainline which is all that these patches depend on. > > Er, it also depends on the patch which exports those headers to > userspace, which isn't in Linus' tree yet.
How useful. If those generic headers are already in Linus' tree, and are required for architectures to convert, why hasn't the patch which exports them to userspace already been submitted?
However, another question: why should userspace be using a kernel header file for byteswapping?
-- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of:
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