From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Cohen, Guy" <guy.cohen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhu, Yi" <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers [part 2/2]
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:02:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <465208CA.8090201@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D0122E209EBF8D4CAB38EC6A8AF244E5028B1C2D@hasmsx412.ger.corp.intel.com>
Cohen, Guy wrote:
> Support for big-endian platforms (as well as AP mode) for iwlwifi is
> currently *planned* to be added by Intel in the near future for several
> purposes.
> However, the vast majority of iwlwifi users at this point run it over
> little-endian platforms. _Delaying_ the inclusion of iwlwifi driver will
> not assist iwlwifi-over-big-endian-platform users in any way, but the
> impact on the rest of the users is clear.
All Linux drivers that use the proper APIs are transparently portable to
either little endian or big endian, 32-bit or 64-bit machines.
If your driver is not portable, then it is not using the proper APIs,
and needs updating.
Next time, write the driver using the correct APIs and you will not run
into these sort of problems...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-16 21:45 [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers James Ketrenos
2007-05-17 1:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17 4:28 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-17 5:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 21:38 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 19:01 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 20:54 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 21:06 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-22 18:39 ` John W. Linville
2007-05-22 18:29 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-17 1:51 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-17 2:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-17 3:55 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-17 8:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-22 19:16 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-22 23:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 21:49 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-22 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-22 22:56 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 0:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 18:17 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 19:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 19:30 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 1:06 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-23 1:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-17 3:35 ` [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers [part 2/2] Randy Dunlap
2007-05-17 15:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-17 15:05 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-18 7:04 ` Johannes Berg
2007-05-18 20:33 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 22:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 21:31 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-18 22:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-18 23:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 14:56 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-21 16:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 16:48 ` James Ketrenos
2007-05-21 18:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-21 20:12 ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-21 21:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-21 21:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-21 21:43 ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-21 22:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-21 21:22 ` Joerg Mayer
2007-05-21 21:46 ` Cohen, Guy
2007-05-18 22:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-05-18 23:05 ` [PATCH] Add iwlwifi wireless drivers Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-18 23:22 ` Michael Wu
2007-05-22 21:50 ` [PATCH v3] " James Ketrenos
2007-05-23 1:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-23 15:16 ` James Ketrenos
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