Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:15:32 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/vdso changes for v3.16 |
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On 06/06/2014 02:13 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote: >> >> The only real downside to that would be the chance of bitrot if that >> code isn't getting used on native builds. > > Sure. Does anybody really care? > > You could obviously just open-code the things, but the fact is, > "le64toh()" isn't exactly a standard function anyway, so now that I > see it needed I go "yeah, that's clearly completely unacceptable". > > I'd much rather say "screw cross-compiling" (because let's face it, > nobody sane cross-compiles x86 on anything else) than say "screw old > machines". >
I'm thinking we should just carry the support functions with us, we already have some of those in tools/include. Working on a patchset for this.
-hpa
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