-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Endianness Questions Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:34:10 -0400 From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> To: nick <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx>, kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On September 1, 2014 1:09:25 AM EDT, nick <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hey Guys, >I have a question about ordering of bits with the types for signed and >unsigned in the kernel tree. >I am wondering if my list below is a good list of major areas of the >kernel that need variable ordering >based to a certain endianness. If there are any more I am missing >please let me known. >Cheers Nick >1. Certain Hardware Protocols like USB and PCI >2. Network Protocols >3. Keeping Data in a certain order preservation like for file systems > ATA and SCSI deserve explicit call out. Where do you put them in the above list? Fyi, I consider one a hardware protocol and the other a network protocol. I let you figure out which is which. Greg -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ATA is under hardware and SCSI is for networking. Cheers Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
