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Subject: Re: Endianness Questions
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:34:10 -0400
From: Greg Freemyer <[email protected]>
To: nick <[email protected]>, kernelnewbies <[email protected]>
On September 1, 2014 1:09:25 AM EDT, nick <[email protected]> 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
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Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
ATA is under hardware and SCSI is for networking.
Cheers Nick
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