From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] be2net: fix mccq create for big endian architectures Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100315.154819.102922144.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100311113548.GA12029@serverengines.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ajitk@serverengines.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34496 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936990Ab0COWr5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:47:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100311113548.GA12029@serverengines.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ajit Khaparde Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:59 +0530 > The request to create an mccq was being dispatched without > doing a byte swap of num_pages. This byte swap is necessary > for Big Endian systems like PPC. Not having this fix leads > mccq create to fail on BE ASICs running newer version of > firmware, thereby causing driver initialization failure. > > Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde Applied.