From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:45:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <658ABE5F-B2AA-4EC1-BC34-B4FD428C7A8E@servergy.com> <088E451FE1854947BD9145EF8C016FF413A017B456@inbmail01.lsi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:44797 "EHLO aserp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751575Ab3HZXps (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:45:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <088E451FE1854947BD9145EF8C016FF413A017B456@inbmail01.lsi.com> (Sumit Saxena's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:46:03 +0530") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Saxena, Sumit" Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" , Ben Collins , DL-MegaRAID Linux , linux-scsi , "aradford@gmail.com" , "Maloy, Joe" >>>>> "Sumit" == Saxena, Sumit writes: Sumit> LSI has megaraid_sas driver with big endian support for driver Sumit> version "06.506.00.00". But to add big endian support for latest Sumit> upstream megaraid_sas driver (06.600.18.00), we need to make some Sumit> more changes. There are a few very important observations to make from that statement: 1. If you have big endian support patches already why aren't they upstream? 2. Why do you have diverging driver branches? An older version has big endian support but somehow that support is missing from a later version of the driver... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering