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From: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-next] Documentation: Build mic/mpssd only for x86_64
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Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:18:57 -0800
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	(Dan Streetman's message of "Thu, 4 Dec 2014 20:27:06 -0700")
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On Thu, Dec 04 2014 at 07:27:06 PM, Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> wrote:
>> mic/mpssd along with MIC drivers are currently only usable on
>> x86_64. So build mic/mpssd only for x86_64 to avoid build breaks on
>> big-endian systems.
>
> Only building for x86_64 is fine, but in that case what's the point of
> leaving the htole16() et. al. functions in mpssd.c?  Shouldn't they be
> removed?

I am hoping that once glibc is fixed we can remove this limitation on
building only for x86_64, so I'd rather htole16() et. al. stayed.  As I
said earlier, I'm fine with your patch too, but restricting the build
for x86_64 seems to be the smallest patch which provides an acceptable
solution.