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Comment by eejjjj82

Best reply from Linus thus far

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  Also, why is this in big-endian order?
  
  Let's just try to kill big-endian data, it's disgusting 
  and should just die already.

  BE is practically dead anyway, we shouldn't add new cases. Networking
  has legacy reasons from the bad old days when byte order wars were
  still a thing, but those days are gone.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wisMFiBHT7dLFOtHqX=fEve3J...
parent eejjjj82 5 years ago

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