From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dhananjay.phadke@qlogic.com
Cc: amit.salecha@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:54:38 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100114.165438.39939357.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <821ABD80-7BA0-4A8B-B7DC-87D3B0BA9ADF@qlogic.com>
From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@qlogic.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:57:47 -0800
>
> On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:08 AM, David Miller wrote:
>
>> You mean in all this time, nobody noticed that reading the MAC
>> address isn't done correctly on big-endian?
>>
>> Well then I guess all of these small endianness fixes aren't
>> very critical this late in the RC series.
>
> The MAC fix doesn't change any functionality, just changing data types.
> It was working on big-endian machines.
Then that's a cleanup and thus even less appropriate for net-2.6
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-15 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-14 10:43 [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes Amit Kumar Salecha
2010-01-14 10:43 ` [PATCH 1/4] netxen: fix endianness read mac address Amit Kumar Salecha
2010-01-14 10:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] netxen: Fix endianness intr coalesce Amit Kumar Salecha
2010-01-14 10:43 ` [PATCH 3/4] netxen: fix license header Amit Kumar Salecha
2010-01-14 10:43 ` [PATCH 4/4] netxen: fix sparse warning Amit Kumar Salecha
2010-01-14 11:08 ` [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes David Miller
2010-01-14 14:57 ` Dhananjay Phadke
2010-01-15 0:54 ` David Miller [this message]
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