linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix

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Message-ID: <tkrat.e867721c03e156c2@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:36:33 +0100 (CET)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
cc:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Kristian Hoegsberg <krh@...planet.net>,
	Jarod Wilson <jwilson@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix

I wrote:
> If possible, also test whether the device remains accessible after
> forcing a bus reset, e.g. by "echo br short > firecontrol".

"echo br short | firecontrol" of course.

This test should actually not really be necessary because simply
plugging the SBP-2 device in should already cause enough generation
changes for the code to trip over an endianess bug before or after thhe
patch, me thinks.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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