Endianness Questions

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Mon Sep 1 08:34:10 EDT 2014



On September 1, 2014 1:09:25 AM EDT, nick <xerofoify at gmail.com> 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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