On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Zach Brown <zab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/05/2012 11:59 AM, Ilya Dryomov wrote: > >> What if you are on a big-endian machine with a big-endian kernel and >> userspace? Everything on-disk should be little-endian, so if you are >> going to write stuff you got from userspace to disk, at some point you >> have to make sure you are writing out bytes in the right order. >> >> Alex already does that, so my remarks are moot ;) > > > Yeah, indeed, we were only talking about the ioctl interface crossing > the user<->kernel barrier :). > I decided to not use __leXX variables in the new btrfs_ioctl_timespec structure because as most arguments found ioctls are currently in cpu dependent endianess. The kernel will then do the endianess conversion as it already did with struct timespec. > - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
