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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: Fix more little endian issues
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:52:09 -0800
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On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 17:38 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> The hypervisor expects MAC addresses passed in registers to be big
> endian u64.

So maybe use __be64 declarations?

> +static unsigned long ibmveth_encode_mac_addr(char *mac)

static __be64 ibmveth_encode_mac_addr(const char *mac)

?

etc...