From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Krzysztof Halasa Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:44:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <464034CF.20700@wpkg.org> <20070516071300.GB14222@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Michael Jones To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:36038 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756984AbXEPOo2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 10:44:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070516071300.GB14222@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Wed, 16 May 2007 08:13:01 +0100") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > Not even trying to support LE is a clear merge blocker. Maybe Krzysztof > can't actually test it himself, which is fine - but not even pretending > to be endian clean is not what proper Linux drivers do. The drivers can only work with IXP4xx CPU and that's not the typical endianess problem cross-platform drivers sometimes have. There is different functionality required with LE mode, unless some other arch changes are implemented (which I'm now researching, if I have some time of course). -- Krzysztof Halasa