On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:03:10PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Anyway, I was curious if you knew where this code had come from. I > didn't see anything to suggest that anyone besides mipsel ever > used it, but it entered linux-mips.org via a merge from kernel.org, > just before git history. > > Oh, right, there's a historical import: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commitdiff;h=32ed691a4efbc1c43584b7b7a6d782528241bb27 > It was copied from sys32_rt_sigtimedwait, which was wrong at least back > to the initial revision of signal32.c. I didn't go back any further. I can further track it into 2.4 or even pre-2.4 where such __MIPSEB__ / __MIPSEL__ dependencies did exist under arch/mips64/. I think it was right until a certain point in 2.5 when get_sigset and put_sigset were implement in a clever way that automatically takes care of the endianess issue - but the swapping code outside arch/mips got forgotten. Ralf
