From: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt6656: [BUG] - Failed connection, incorrect endian. v2
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:12:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1346278357.2177.7.camel@router7789> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <503E8789.6050809-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 16:20 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 03:54 PM, Malcolm Priestley wrote:
> >
> > This patch fixes a bug with driver failing to negotiate a connection.
> >
> > The bug was traced to commit
> > 203e4615ee9d9fa8d3506b9d0ef30095e4d5bc90
> > staging: vt6656: removed custom definitions of Ethernet packet types
> >
> > In that patch, definitions in include/linux/if_ether.h replaced ones
> > in tether.h which had both big and little endian definitions.
> >
> > include/linux/if_ether.h only refers to big endian values, cpu_to_be16
> > should be used for the correct endian architectures.
> >
> > checkpatch fixed version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>
> Patches for staging drivers should be sent to gregkh-hQyY1W1yCW8ekmWlsbkhG5u6nac5fYnt@public.gmane.org He is
> the one that handles them. In addition, the patch subject line usually has the
> sequence "staging: vt6656: blabla" the way the faulty patch did.
Thanks
I have forwarded the patch.
Regards
Malcolm
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2012-08-29 20:54 [PATCH] vt6656: [BUG] - Failed connection, incorrect endian. v2 Malcolm Priestley
2012-08-29 21:20 ` Larry Finger
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2012-08-29 22:12 ` Malcolm Priestley [this message]
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