From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: me@tobin.cc (Tobin C. Harding) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 09:26:40 +1000 Subject: endian patches Message-ID: <20170430232640.GE21332@eros> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Should [drivers/staging/*] patches to endian code be tested on hardware before submission? During recent development of ks7010 driver, and from watching patch review on devel at linuxdriverproject.org, I formed the opinion that patches fixing endian issues need to be tested on hardware before they can be *guaranteed* to be correct. Is this opinion well founded? thanks, Tobin.