From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>, Chen Yu <yu.chen.surf@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Make size and checksum fields le32
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 10:48:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201104818.4ea357d8@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <160583933538.547349.272918354455492444.stgit@devnote2>
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:28:55 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-01 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-20 2:28 [PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Make size and checksum fields le32 Masami Hiramatsu
2020-11-20 2:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] bootconfig: Load size and checksum in the footer as le32 Masami Hiramatsu
2020-11-20 2:29 ` [PATCH 2/3] tools/bootconfig: Store size and checksum in " Masami Hiramatsu
2020-11-20 2:29 ` [PATCH 3/3] docs: bootconfig: Add the endianness of fields Masami Hiramatsu
2020-12-01 15:48 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-12-01 23:41 ` [PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Make size and checksum fields le32 Masami Hiramatsu
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2020-11-20 2:27 Masami Hiramatsu
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