Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: hip04: use the big endian for tx and rx desc

[Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>]

On 2015/4/15 22:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 April 2015 20:30:04 Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> The hip04 ethernet use the big endian for tx and rx, so set desc to
>> big endian and remove the unused next_addr.
> 
> I don't understand:
> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
>> index b0a7f03..6473462 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
>> @@ -132,19 +132,18 @@
>>  #define HIP04_MIN_TX_COALESCE_FRAMES   1
>>  
>>  struct tx_desc {
>> -       u32 send_addr;
>> -       u32 send_size;
>> -       u32 next_addr;
>> -       u32 cfg;
>> -       u32 wb_addr;
>> +       __be32 send_addr;
>> +       __be32 send_size;
>> +       __be32 cfg;
>> +       __be32 wb_addr;
>>  } __aligned(64);
> 
> I would think this is a hardware structure, does this not break
> access to the cfg and wb_addr fields if you remove next_addr?
> 
> 	Arnd
> 
good cache, I make a mistake here, thanks.

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