Re: powerpc: introduce asm/swab.h

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 03:38:08 EST


On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 04:00 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=156ca2bbf6503a02d7d6829886ce381d572de66e
> > Commit: 156ca2bbf6503a02d7d6829886ce381d572de66e
> > Parent: 8cdd3a9261e8efe36aeb6c708edb76d7e2b5d13f
> > Author: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Tue Jan 6 14:56:23 2009 -0800
> > Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Tue Jan 6 18:10:27 2009 -0800
> >
> > powerpc: introduce asm/swab.h
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Was this tested ? I see no arch maintainer signed-off here, it appears
> to at least break ppc32, and contains hunks that paulus says were
> explicitely nacked (removing of our ld_* macros) etc...

And m68k (sun3, why not the others/):
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/66040/

Why hasn't this been in linux-next?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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