From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856FEC64E90 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF872080A for ; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2390441AbgLAPtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:49:02 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:59400 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726810AbgLAPtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:49:02 -0500 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6B5DE20870; Tue, 1 Dec 2020 15:48:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:48:18 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Linus Torvalds , Chen Yu , Chen Yu , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Make size and checksum fields le32 Message-ID: <20201201104818.4ea357d8@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <160583933538.547349.272918354455492444.stgit@devnote2> References: <160583933538.547349.272918354455492444.stgit@devnote2> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:28:55 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Hello, > > This is a series of patches to make the size and the checksum fields > in the footer le32 instead of u32. > > In the thread for alignment series[1], Steve pointed that the current > footer format didn't specify the endianness thus it is hard to apply > the bootconfig for cross-build initrd if the target endianness is > different from the host machine. > > I've proposed that the hexadecimal ASCII string in the previous series > [2] but Linus pointed that making it le32 was enough. > > So this just make those fields le32. > > Thank you, > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201118112249.30d20147@gandalf.local.home/ > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CAHk-=wi9RedSQoGF06dVs2mp7tBp4QoiW8+XZzNcDFJr3Zo5gg@mail.gmail.com/ > > --- > I have this all tested. Is this something that should go into the current -rc release, or wait for the next merge window? -- Steve