From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: myrs: only build on little-endian platforms
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:36:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq14lcu7u81.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181102154740.2011289-1-arnd@arndb.de> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Fri, 2 Nov 2018 16:47:23 +0100")
Arnd,
> Reading throught the new driver, I noticed that this cannot work on
> big-endian CPUs, and the old DAC960 had exactly the same behavior.
>
> To document this for the future, add a Kconfig dependency that prevents it
> from being included in big-endian kernels. Since the hardware is really
> old and we never had a working driver on it for big-endian platforms,
> it's unlikely to make a difference to users.
Applied to 4.20/scsi-fixes. Thank you!
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-06 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-02 15:47 [PATCH] scsi: myrs: only build on little-endian platforms Arnd Bergmann
2018-11-05 7:54 ` Hannes Reinecke
2018-11-06 3:36 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
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