Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN or warn for inconsistencies

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:34:18AM -0700, Babu Moger wrote:
> Resending the series per Greg KH's request.
> 
> Found this problem while enabling queued rwlock on SPARC.
> The parameter CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN is used to clear the
> specific byte in qrwlock structure. Without this parameter,
> we clear the wrong byte.
> Here is the code in include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h
> 
> static inline u8 *__qrwlock_write_byte(struct qrwlock *lock)
>   {
>          return (u8 *)lock + 3 * IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN);
>   }
> 
> Also found few more references of this parameter in
> drivers/of/base.c
> drivers/of/fdt.c
> drivers/tty/serial/earlycon.c
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> 
> Here is our previous discussion.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/5/24/620
> 
> Based on the discussion, it was decided to add CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
> for all the fixed big endian architecture(frv, h8300, m68k, openrisc,
> parisc and sparc). And warn if there are inconsistencies in this definition.

Did this series ever get picked up by anyone?  I don't know whose tree
it should go through if not, anyone have any ideas?  I guess I could,
but arch-specific stuff is odd...

thanks,

greg k-h