Re: [PATCH-2.6.28 final] byteorder: fix new headers for userspace

[Harvey Harrison]

On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 12:47 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > I think it would be better to just make it a config option, call it 
> > CONFIG_[LITTLE|BIG]_ENDIAN and set it up in the architecture Kconfig file. 
> > I think some of the people who can set it dynamically (or where it depends 
> > on the target machine) already effectively do that.
> 
> Never mind, since we end up having to export it to user space (do we?) we 
> can't depend on the config.h file, nor can we pollute the name space.
> 
> Oh well.

I'm still having a bit of a think on this if we can avoid it.  But I
think we're stuck with needing a different symbol. :-/

Harvey

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