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From: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@samba.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL dump code
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:06:50 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53574362.8010501@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140423073115.6a7d4802@kryten>

On 04/23/2014 03:01 AM, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> -int64_t opal_dump_info(uint32_t *dump_id, uint32_t *dump_size);
>> -int64_t opal_dump_info2(uint32_t *dump_id, uint32_t *dump_size, uint32_t *dump_type);
>> +int64_t opal_dump_info(__be32 *dump_id, __be32 *dump_size);
>> +int64_t opal_dump_info2(__be32 *dump_id, __be32 *dump_size, __be32 *dump_type);
>>   int64_t opal_dump_read(uint32_t dump_id, uint64_t buffer);
>>   int64_t opal_dump_ack(uint32_t dump_id);
>>
>> Shouldn't we change above two functions as well ?
>
> No, there are no endian issues here because we pass the values via
> register. The only endian issues are for values we pass via pointer.
>

Anton,

Thanks for the clarification..


-Vasant

      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-22  5:01 [PATCH 1/6] powerpc/powernv: Use uint64_t instead of size_t in OPAL APIs Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  5:01 ` [PATCH 2/6] powerpc/powernv: Remove some OPAL function declaration duplication Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  5:01 ` [PATCH 3/6] powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues with opal_do_notifier calls Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  5:01 ` [PATCH 4/6] powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL error log code Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  8:10   ` Vasant Hegde
2014-04-22  5:01 ` [PATCH 5/6] powerpc/powernv: Create OPAL sglist helper functions and fix endian issues Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  9:16   ` Vasant Hegde
2014-04-22 21:34     ` Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  5:01 ` [PATCH 6/6] powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL dump code Anton Blanchard
2014-04-22  8:32   ` Vasant Hegde
2014-04-22 21:31     ` Anton Blanchard
2014-04-23  4:36       ` Vasant Hegde [this message]

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