Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] kexec_elf: remove elf_addr_to_cpu macro

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Hi Christophe,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 05:09:29PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 10/07/2019 à 16:29, Sven Schnelle a écrit :
> > It had only one definition, so just use the function directly.
> 
> It had only one definition because it was for ppc64 only.
> But as far as I understand (at least from the name of the new file), you
> want it to be generic, don't you ? Therefore I get on 32 bits it would be
> elf32_to_cpu().

That brings up the question whether we need those endianess conversions. I would
assume that the ELF file has always the same endianess as the running kernel. So
i think we could just drop them. What do you think?

Regards
Sven

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