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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:47:28 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 

why are we exposing byte order functions to userspace in the first
place ????


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