linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: use kernel define byte order macros

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:15:06 -0600
From:   Robert Perry Hooker <perry.hooker@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        ganesh.krishna@...rochip.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        aditya.shankar@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: use kernel define byte order macros

Well, yes, all data is 'endian' one way or another, right? I guess the byte order of the tx/rx_buffers is host-endian
(which could be big), or _maybe_ network-endian...

Regards,
Perry

On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 11:33 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:53:28PM -0600, Robert Perry Hooker wrote:
> > I don't think buff is an ieee80211_hdr struct. I think it's the rx_buffer allocated at wilc_wlan.c:1417.
> > 
> 
> The rx_buffer is going to end up filled with endian data, right?
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>