linux/include/uapi
David Howells 29ba06b9ed UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/acct.h
In the UAPI header files, __BIG_ENDIAN and __LITTLE_ENDIAN must be
compared against __BYTE_ORDER in preprocessor conditionals where these are
exposed to userspace (that is they're not inside __KERNEL__ conditionals).

However, in the main kernel the norm is to check for
"defined(__XXX_ENDIAN)" rather than comparing against __BYTE_ORDER and
this has incorrectly leaked into the userspace headers.

The definition of ACCT_BYTEORDER in linux/acct.h is wrong in this way.
Note that userspace will likely interpret this incorrectly as the
big-endian variant on little-endian machines - depending on header
inclusion order.

[!!!] NOTE [!!!]  This patch may adversely change the userspace API.  It might
be better to fix the value of ACCT_BYTEORDER.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-03-13 15:21:48 -07:00
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asm-generic Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal 2013-02-23 18:50:11 -08:00
drm drm/omap: move out of staging 2013-02-16 17:38:06 -05:00
linux UAPI: fix endianness conditionals in linux/acct.h 2013-03-13 15:21:48 -07:00
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rdma IB/uverbs: Implement memory windows support in uverbs 2013-02-21 11:59:09 -08:00
scsi FCoE Updates for 3.9 2013-03-01 09:10:08 +00:00
sound ALSA: compress: add support for gapless playback 2013-02-14 12:30:22 +01:00
video UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/video 2012-12-20 17:14:26 +00:00
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