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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rt2x00-devel@lfcorreia.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/32] rt2x00: byte ordering correctness
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:59:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604281459.24186.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060427221321.GB22135@infradead.org>

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On Friday 28 April 2006 00:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:03:12AM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > From: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Fix various little/big endian conversions.
> > rt2500pci should use cpu_to_le32 and rt2500usb should not.
> 
> While you're at it can you add __be* annotations to the hardware
> datastructures so the endianess handling can be verified using sparse?

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.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-28 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-27 22:03 [PATCH 20/32] rt2x00: byte ordering correctness Ivo van Doorn
2006-04-27 22:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-28 12:59   ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2006-04-28 13:14     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-28 13:31       ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-04-28 13:42         ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-28 13:45           ` Ivo van Doorn
2006-04-28 13:46           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-28 13:56             ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-28 15:01             ` Ivo van Doorn

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