From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F05C71A0103 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:20:04 +1000 (AEST) Message-ID: <1440044404.13406.13.camel@ellerman.id.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver From: Michael Ellerman To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Laurent Dufour Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:20:04 +1000 In-Reply-To: <1440034811.13406.9.camel@ellerman.id.au> References: <1438334990-11765-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1438649494.9418.0.camel@ellerman.id.au> <55D4FAE9.7000504@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1440034811.13406.9.camel@ellerman.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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