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SubjectRe: [: [git pull] headers_check fixes]
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> For the specific x86 swab code, that would certainly be the simplest
> way, user space should not be using those inline assemblies either
> way.
>
> I think the more interesting question is whether we want to export
> *any* inline helpers that are not part of the ABI to user space.
> We already killed most of them (spinlocks, atomics, ...) and what
> remains is basically just the byteorder code. All that is required
> for the ABI is the information whether the system is big- or
> little-endian, but not all the rest.
>

In general, no. The byteswap API is a legacy exception.

-hpa



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