David Miller writes:
> From: Marcel Holtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:03:04 +0200
>
> > > More fallout from the premature mISDN driver merge:
> > >
> > > drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcmulti.c:5255:2: error: #error "not
> > > running on big endian machines now"
> >
> > is that only the HFC driver or the whole mISDN stack?
> >
> > I know that the two old ISDN stacks where really bad on big endian,
> > but my assumption was that we did sort this out in the end.
>
> One of the two mISDN drivers uses the deprecated virt_to_bus()
> interface for handling DMA addresses (that doesn't even work on many
> x86 systems these days) and the other mISDN driver gives the above
> big-endian compile time error.
>
> In short, this driver was not ready for merging at all.
Why on earth does a generic (I hope) protocol driver (some ISDN
thingy in this case) care about endianess at all?
Or has things come to a "the world's an x86" ("the world's a VAX" for
old-timers but add 25+ years or so) situation where the majority of
coders don't even consider that machines might be different from what
they use? If so, a deep sigh of sadness.
(Not that I prefer a particular endianess. My point being that coders
shouldn't make endianess assumptions unless they're really^3 important.)>
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