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[PATCH] uml: restore include breakage, breaking binary format of COW driver

Commit 44456d37b5, between 2.6.13-rc3 and -rc4,
was a "nice cleanup" which broke something. Revert the offending part.

It broke because:
a) because this part doesn't fall under the description
b) the author didn't know what he was doing here
c) the author didn't try to compile the existing code and see that it worked
   perfectly.
d) the author didn't ask us what was happening
e) you didn't either, and somebody there should have learned that UML is a bit
   different.

In fact, UML is special in linking to host libc and using its includes.

In particular, since host includes always define both __BIG_ENDIAN and
__LITTLE_ENDIAN, ntohll() macros started thinking to be in a big-endian world;
and on-disk compatibility was broken.

Many thanks go to Nix for reporting the problem and correctly diagnosing an
endianness problem.

Btw, this patch restores the previous code, which worked; but the definitions
would be uncorrect if used in kernelspace files.

Next patch addresses that.

Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 2005-10-09 21:37:35 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 54a8a2220c
commit 855ec613ca
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions

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#include <asm/types.h>
#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
#if __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN
# define ntohll(x) (x)
# define htonll(x) (x)
#elif defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN)
#elif __BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN
# define ntohll(x) bswap_64(x)
# define htonll(x) bswap_64(x)
#else