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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:20:04 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1440044404.13406.13.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440034811.13406.9.camel@ellerman.id.au>

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 11:40 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 23:53 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > On 04/08/2015 02:51, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 11:29 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > >> This patch fixes several endianness issues detected when running the HVSI
> > >> driver in little endian mode.
> > >>
> > >> These issues are raised in little endian mode because the data exchanged in
> > >> memory between the kernel and the hypervisor has to be in big endian
> > >> format.

...
>
> So it seems you fixed all the issues, or at least all the issues we can detect
> with sparse. So I'll merge this as-is with an updated changelog.

Unless Greg wants to merge it? But I'll assume he's not bothered unless he says
otherwise as it's a powerpc only driver.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-20  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-31  9:29 [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver Laurent Dufour
2015-08-03 11:00 ` David Laight
2015-08-19 21:37   ` Laurent Dufour
2015-08-19 21:50     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-08-04  0:51 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-08-19 21:53   ` Laurent Dufour
2015-08-20  1:40     ` Michael Ellerman
2015-08-20  4:20       ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-08-21  7:43 ` Michael Ellerman

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