From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: manish.chopra@qlogic.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com, Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] bnx2x: Configure device endianity on driver load and reset endianity on removal.
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:55:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140902.135526.520876149203677318.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409646685-28320-1-git-send-email-manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
From: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 04:31:25 -0400
> Some hosts can be both little and big endian.
> In certain scenarios a big endian kernel can kexec a little endian kernel.
>
> This patch fixes this case from both ends:
> 1) Return endianity to original values on shutdown (in case little endian kernel boots after we shutdown).
> 2) Do not rely on HW reset values when loading driver in little endian kernel
> but configure them explicitly (in case previous kernel was big endian and did not reset the HW).
>
> Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <Ariel.Elior@qlogic.com>
Applied.
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2014-09-02 8:31 [PATCH v2 net] bnx2x: Configure device endianity on driver load and reset endianity on removal Manish Chopra
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