On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@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".
Tell that to Stephen Rothwell, who apparently cross-compiles x86 on ppc on a regular basis :) I'll send a patch. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
