From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>,
jeff@garzik.org, shemminger@osdl.org, romieu@fr.zoreil.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] atl1: Revised Attansic L1 ethernet driver
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:46:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061120094603.1d1e528a@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45614C80.5070303@redhat.com>
> > Be careful with :1 bitfields when working with hardware - the compiler
> > has more than one choice about how to pack them.
>
> Lacking a spec, I'm not entirely sure what the original intent was, so
> we're stuck with testing. Is there a specific disambiguation technique
> you recommend?
Assuming the driver works on x86 then you know how the bits are laid out.
You may find later you need to put in ifdefs for bitfield endian-ness as
we do in things like include/linux/ip.h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 20:28 [PATCH 0/4] atl1: Revised Attansic L1 ethernet driver Jay Cliburn
2006-11-20 1:15 ` Alan
2006-11-20 6:34 ` Chris Snook
2006-11-20 9:46 ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-20 6:37 ` Chris Snook
2006-11-21 20:25 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-11-25 22:43 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-11-26 1:33 ` Jay Cliburn
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