[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:10:11 +1100
Subject: powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc

commit 422b9b9684db3c511e65c91842275c43f5910ae9 upstream.

I noticed this when testing setarch. No, we don't magically
support a big endian userspace on a little endian kernel.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
index 84fdf68..ef22898 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>

 #define COMPAT_USER_HZ		100
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
 #define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE	"ppc\0\0"
+#else
+#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE	"ppcle\0\0"
+#endif

 typedef u32		compat_size_t;
 typedef s32		compat_ssize_t;
--
1.9.1