netdev - Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: fix 16-bit descriptor field access endianness too

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:24:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh_eth: fix 16-bit descriptor field access endianness
 too

From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 01:48:04 +0300

> Commit 1299653affa4 ("sh_eth: fix descriptor access endianness") only
> addressed the 32-bit buffer address field byte-swapping  but the driver
> still accesses 16-bit frame/buffer length descriptor fields without the
> necessary byte-swapping -- which should affect the big-endian kernels.
> In order to be able to use {cpu|edmac}_to_{edmac|cpu}(), we need to declare
> the RX/TX descriptor word 1 as a 32-bit field and use shifts/masking to
> access the 16-bit subfields (which gets rid of the ugly #ifdef'ery too)...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>

Applied, thanks Sergei.
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