Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 06/06/2014 02:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The only real downside to that would be the chance of bitrot if that
>> code isn't getting used on native builds.
> 
> Sure. Does anybody really care?
> 
> You could obviously just open-code the things, but the fact is,
> "le64toh()" isn't exactly a standard function anyway, so now that I
> see it needed I go "yeah, that's clearly completely unacceptable".
> 
> I'd much rather say "screw cross-compiling" (because let's face it,
> nobody sane cross-compiles x86 on anything else) than say "screw old
> machines".
> 

I'm thinking we should just carry the support functions with us, we
already have some of those in tools/include.  Working on a patchset for
this.

	-hpa

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