On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It would be *much* better to just standardize on one endianness, and be > done with it. That way there are no config options, no confusion, and the > code is smaller, simpler, and faster. .. it's also statically checkable with tools like "sparse", so it avoids bugs not only by being simpler, but by simply being fundamentally more robust to start with. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html