linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver

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Message-ID: <1438649494.9418.0.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:51:34 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver

On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 11:29 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> This patch fixes several endianness issues detected when running the HVSI
> driver in little endian mode.
> 
> These issues are raised in little endian mode because the data exchanged in
> memory between the kernel and the hypervisor has to be in big endian
> format.

Can you include the sparse output before and after?

cheers


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