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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] caif: fix endian conversion in cffrml_transmit()
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:33:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111121063356.GH2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111121061722.GD7354@elgon.mountain>

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 09:17:22AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "tmp" variable here is used to store the result of cpu_to_le16()
> so it should be a u16 instead of an int.  We want the high bits set
> and the current code works on little endian systems but not on big
> endian systems.

Charming...  On b-e we end up feeding zeroes instead of the value we want.

However, that u16 clearly ought to be __le16 - it's there for purpose.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-21  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-21  6:17 [patch] caif: fix endian conversion in cffrml_transmit() Dan Carpenter
2011-11-21  6:33 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-11-21 19:50   ` [patch v2] " Dan Carpenter
2011-11-21 21:20     ` Sjur Brændeland
2011-11-21 21:46       ` David Miller
2011-11-21 14:36 ` [patch] " Sjur BRENDELAND

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