[PATCH v3] arch: Kconfig: Let all architectures set endian explicitly

[Vineet Gupta]

On Thursday 14 August 2014 03:22 PM, Chen Gang wrote:
> For many individual modules may need check CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN or
> CPU_BIG_ENDIAN, which is an architecture's attribute.
>
> Or they have to list many architectures which they support, which they
> don't support. And still, it is not precise.
>
> For architecture API, endian is a main architecture's attribute which
> may be used by outside, so every architecture need let outside know
> about it, explicitly.

I don't think that is correct. The modules need to use standard API e.g. swab
which will take care of proper endian handling anyways. Why would a module do
anything endian specific outside of those APIs.

And again is this churn just theoretical or do you really have a issue at hand ! I
would not accept a change for ARC unless you prove that something is broken (or
atleast potentially broken) !

-Vineet