Jiri Slaby napsal(a): > Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): >> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 17:34, johann deneux wrote: >>> What about adding a member to ff_effect which would be the number of the >>> motor? >>> We can't change the layout of ff_effect too much though, so we have to >>> find unused bits and put them to work. >>> >>> For instance, we could replace >>> >>> __u16 type; >>> >>> by >>> >>> __u8 motor; >>> __u8 type; >>> >> Splitting type field seems to be a good idea. > > Maybe stupid question, but what about endianness + backward compatibility? > If we split it into motor,type sequence, it would break LE (untouched BE), > if we do type,motor, it is OK for LE (broken BE).
Aha, and the question is: do #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN #else #endif ? regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E Hnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is an alias for /dev/null - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
