Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86_64

[Dan Streetman]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mic/mpssd along with MIC drivers are currently only usable on
> x86_64. So build mic/mpssd only for x86_64 to avoid build breaks on
> big-endian systems.

Only building for x86_64 is fine, but in that case what's the point of
leaving the htole16() et. al. functions in mpssd.c?  Shouldn't they be
removed?

>
> Reported-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile
> index 0f31568..f47fe6b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile
> +++ b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>  # List of programs to build
> -hostprogs-y := mpssd
> +hostprogs-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := mpssd
>
>  mpssd-objs := mpssd.o sysfs.o
>
> --
> 2.0.0.rc3.2.g998f840
>
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