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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [RFC][PATCH] loadkmap/dumpkmap: remove endianess dependency
From:       John Spencer <maillist-busybox () barfooze ! de>
Date:       2013-09-17 0:55:42
Message-ID: 5237A88E.8020606 () barfooze ! de
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On 09/17/2013 02:38 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Monday 16 September 2013 14:38, John Spencer wrote:
>> currently dumpkmap stores the keymap in the host endian format.
>> that makes it impossible to create portable kmaps for usage on different
>> archs.
>>
>> however, i'm not sure if (apart from the endian differences) the kernel
>> keymaps differ between archs, so this may be unnecessary anyway.
>
> This would create nasty surprise at update time :/
>

indeed, but how about if it needs to be enabled via config

#ifndef CONFIG_KMAP_PORTABLE
#define htons(x) x
#define ntohs(x) x
#endif
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