Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Use <tools/le_byteshift.h> for littleendian access

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 18:06:09 EST


On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:28:37 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Want to test this patch before I commit it?
>
> ...
>
> >From 15ea1a528e08c6bc322f10686ec8d73ba413b941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:25:26 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86, vdso: Remove one final use of htole16()
>
> One final use of the macros from <endian.h> which are not available on
> older system. In this case we had one sole case of *writing* a
> littleendian number, but the number is SHN_UNDEF which is the constant
> zero, so rather than dealing with the general case of littleendian
> puts here, just document that the constant is zero and be done with
> it.

Compiles and boots, thanks.
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