From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753978AbaFJWGE (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:06:04 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:40375 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753616AbaFJWGC (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:06:02 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:06:00 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "H. Peter Anvin" 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" , linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/vdso] x86, vdso: Use for littleendian access Message-Id: <20140610150600.af0649ca26db602d51fe8899@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <53977885.8010709@zytor.com> References: <20140606140017.afb7f91142f66cb3dd13c186@linux-foundation.org> <20140610135051.c3c34165f73d67d218b62bd9@linux-foundation.org> <53977885.8010709@zytor.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:28:37 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > Want to test this patch before I commit it? > > ... > > >From 15ea1a528e08c6bc322f10686ec8d73ba413b941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: "H. Peter Anvin" > 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 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.