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SubjectRe: [PATCH] isdn: hisax: netjet requires VIRT_TO_BUS
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:15:00 +0000

> David Howells brought up the topic of endian checks recently, noting
> that the way we define __BIG_ENDIAN and __LITTLE_ENDIAN in the kernel
> is incompatible to how do it in user space, and not much better either.
>
> A few architectures that are bi-endian (arc, arm, c6x, mips, sh) already
> have CONFIG_CPU_IS_LITTLE_ENDIAN and CONFIG_CPU_IS_BIG_ENDIAN. I guess
> it would be a good idea to provide these on all architectures.

I do not want to see us add such a Kconfig dependency knob.

Then the real tendency will exist to make new drivers little-endian
only, refuse to fix endian-broken old drivers, etc.

Which means that allmodconfig on my architecture will have build
coverage on less code, which is really the only thing that matters
for me. I want all drivers that could be effected by my changes
to be compile testable on as many platforms as possible.


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