Re: [PATCH 01/17] kallsyms: support big kernel symbols (2-byte lengths)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-04 21:28:28
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On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 2:15 PM Miguel Ojeda [off-list ref] wrote:
No particular reason. It makes sense to use LE -- I will change it.
Matthew's suggestion is denser, which is nice.
At that point, it would be neither BE nor LE. But the "LE-like" version would be
len = data[0];
if (len & 128)
len += data[1] << 7;
which ends up having a tiny bit more range (it goes to 11^H32895).
Of course, if the range is expected to be just 0-300, I guess that
matters not one whit.
Linus