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