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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:18:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158707918.6002.179.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060919184243.GL29167@austin.ibm.com>


> However, I presume someone added the  __powerpc__ define here
> because they picked up a 3c509 at a garage sale, stuck it in 
> a powerpc, found out it didn't work due to a byte-swapping bug,
> and then patched it as above. I'm disturbed that somehow 
> outsl_ns() became identical to outsl() at some point, presumably
> breaking this patch.

The problem is that somebody had the "bright" idea to implement ppc
outsl as byteswapping a loooong time ago. This was totally bogus and got
fixed, but it looks like this driver holds a remain of that period.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-19 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-19  4:54 Fw: [PATCH] Remove powerpc specific parts of 3c509 driver Stephen Rothwell
2006-09-19 18:42 ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-19 18:52   ` Matt Sealey
2006-09-19 19:44     ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-19 23:24     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-20  0:21       ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20  0:25         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-09-20  0:58           ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20  1:17             ` Linas Vepstas
2006-09-20  1:41               ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20  0:57         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-20  1:08           ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20  1:18             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-20 20:06               ` Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-20 21:29                 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-09-19 23:18   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-09-19 23:27   ` Fw: " Paul Mackerras

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