netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: make driver endian-safe

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:52:05 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gerg@...inux.org, l.stach@...gutronix.de,
	B38611@...escale.com, arnd@...db.de, shawnguo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: make driver endian-safe

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:52:37 +0100

> The driver treats the device descriptors as CPU-endian, which appears
> to be correct with the default endianness on both ARM (typically LE)
> and PowerPC (typically BE) SoCs, indicating that the hardware block
> is generated differently. Add endianness annotations and byteswaps as
> necessary.
> 
> It's not clear that the ifdef there really is correct and shouldn't
> just be #ifdef CONFIG_ARM, but I also can't test on anything but the
> i.MX6 HummingBoard where this gets it working with a BE kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

Applied.