From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: sbhatewara@vmware.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, shemminger@vyatta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vmxnet3: fix typo setting confPA
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:46:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=XUrRsNqCfMsyMQoXj2ufe-RPwrbNJMBTvttvW@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101024.154417.116368884.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
>> <sbhatewara@vmware.com> wrote:
>>> Because values need to be written in LE orders in registers. For eg. when rx_ring.next2fill index is written to RXPROD reg, it should be converted from CPU order to LE.
>>
>> Yes, but (unless I'm mistaken) writel always writes out in
>> little-endian, so there isn't a need to swap the arguments,
>> similarly for readl in the other direction.
>
> That's right, readl() and writel() translate to little-endian.
>
OK, I'll submit patches for this and one more endian fix I found (only
visible on BE)
Harvey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-22 4:05 [PATCH 1/3] vmxnet3: remove set_flag_le{16,64} helpers Harvey Harrison
2010-10-22 4:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] vmxnet3: annotate hwaddr members as __iomem pointers Harvey Harrison
2010-10-22 17:30 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-10-24 22:43 ` David Miller
2010-10-22 4:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] vmxnet3: fix typo setting confPA Harvey Harrison
2010-10-22 17:31 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-10-22 17:39 ` Harvey Harrison
2010-10-22 17:46 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-10-22 17:52 ` Harvey Harrison
2010-10-22 18:10 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-10-24 22:44 ` David Miller
2010-10-25 1:46 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2010-10-24 22:43 ` David Miller
2010-10-22 17:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] vmxnet3: remove set_flag_le{16,64} helpers Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-10-24 22:43 ` David Miller
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