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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/32] rt2x00: byte ordering correctness
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:14:30 +0100
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On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:59:23PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> I am not sure if that would be a wise idea,
> there is no byte ordering done in rt2500usb except for the EEPROM
> contents which is little endian.
> So when the module is used on a normal x86 platform, there won't be
> any big endian structures or fields.

Well, then you'll need __le* annotation and the le*_to_cpu/cpu_to_le*
instead.  Any new driver should be endian clean.