From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
hpa@linux.intel.com,
"tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin" <tipbot@zytor.com>,
linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Use <tools/le_byteshift.h> for littleendian access
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:06:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140610150600.af0649ca26db602d51fe8899@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53977885.8010709@zytor.com>
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:28:37 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Want to test this patch before I commit it?
>
> ...
>
> >From 15ea1a528e08c6bc322f10686ec8d73ba413b941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:25:26 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86, vdso: Remove one final use of htole16()
>
> One final use of the macros from <endian.h> which are not available on
> older system. In this case we had one sole case of *writing* a
> littleendian number, but the number is SHN_UNDEF which is the constant
> zero, so rather than dealing with the general case of littleendian
> puts here, just document that the constant is zero and be done with
> it.
Compiles and boots, thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-04 22:35 [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16 H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-06 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-08 17:18 ` Sam Ravnborg
2014-06-08 18:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-06 21:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-06-06 21:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:22 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 21:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 21:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 21:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-06 21:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-06 22:00 ` [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Use <tools/le_byteshift.h> for littleendian access tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-10 21:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 21:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-10 22:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-06-10 22:43 ` [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Remove one final use of htole16() tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
2014-06-10 22:57 ` tip-bot for H. Peter Anvin
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