On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:47 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:31 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Here is a seires of patches to change the bootconfig footer format > > to use 8-bytes hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum instead > > of u32. > > Ugh., > > Just make it little-endian only. > > The _worst_ thing to do is to make it some kind of "native-endian", > because then you have to deal with cross building issues etc. > > But using a __le32 type and just doing "le32_to_cpu()" is trivial and > optimal - not just because everybody relevant is LE anyway, but simply > because even if you _aren't_ LE, an unconditional byte swap is better > than a conditional native access. And since this isn't used in any fast paths, the byte swapping in the kernel should be a non-issue. -- Steve
