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Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:54:38 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: dhananjay.phadke@...gic.com Cc: amit.salecha@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@...gic.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:57:47 -0800 > > On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:08 AM, David Miller wrote: > >> You mean in all this time, nobody noticed that reading the MAC >> address isn't done correctly on big-endian? >> >> Well then I guess all of these small endianness fixes aren't >> very critical this late in the RC series. > > The MAC fix doesn't change any functionality, just changing data types. > It was working on big-endian machines. Then that's a cleanup and thus even less appropriate for net-2.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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