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

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 11:57:50 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Robert Perry Hooker <perry.hooker@...il.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        aditya.shankar@...rochip.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ganesh.krishna@...rochip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: use kernel define byte order macros

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 04:15:06PM -0600, Robert Perry Hooker wrote:
> 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...

The good news is this code is Open Source[tm] so we don't need to guess.
It's full of little endian data.

regards,
dan carpenter