Re: [PATCH 19/22] x86: use the new byteorder headers

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:59:24 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:56:12 -0700
> 
> > I'll drop them all.  Do you have a cross-compiler suite there?
> 
> I think Harvey needs a mentor which can help him learn how to properly
> build validate his patches before he submits them, and how to not mix
> things up by, for example, validating the build with patches applied
> that won't be submitted etc.
> 
> Every time I integrate these byteorder patches directly for networking
> or sparc, it tends to be a build regression nightmare.
> 
> I think Andrew has hit 3 already with this patch series, quite an
> accomplishment.  :-/

heh.  This is why I habitually wait until Harveypatches hit version 4. 
Maybe I need to increment that a bit.

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