From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:54:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20100114.165438.39939357.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1263465787-28203-1-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com> <20100114.030854.52825026.davem@davemloft.net> <821ABD80-7BA0-4A8B-B7DC-87D3B0BA9ADF@qlogic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: amit.salecha@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: dhananjay.phadke@qlogic.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45432 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755469Ab0AOAy2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:54:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <821ABD80-7BA0-4A8B-B7DC-87D3B0BA9ADF@qlogic.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dhananjay Phadke 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