linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib : lz4 using put_unaligned_le16 instead of put

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Message-ID: <20140722021137.GD19215@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:11:37 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Eunbong Song <eunb.song@...sung.com>
Cc:	chanho.min@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib : lz4 using put_unaligned_le16 instead of
 put_unaligned

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:03:22AM +0000, Eunbong Song wrote:
> 
> In case of mips bigendian machine, put_unaligned writes bigendian bytes order. 
> This is defined in arch/mips/include/asm/unaligned.h. So it's right use put_unaligned_le16 function instead of put_unaligned.
> This patch also fixes problem fail to mount zram ext4 partition with "zram: Decompression failed! err=-1, page=0" in mips bigendian machine.

Odd line wrapping :(

Anyway, is this a new problem?  Or something that has always been there
in this compression function?

thanks,

greg k-h
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