linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: myrs: only build on little-endian platforms

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Message-ID: <yq14lcu7u81.fsf@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:36:30 -0500
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.com>,
        Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: myrs: only build on little-endian platforms


Arnd,

> Reading throught the new driver, I noticed that this cannot work on
> big-endian CPUs, and the old DAC960 had exactly the same behavior.
>
> To document this for the future, add a Kconfig dependency that prevents it
> from being included in big-endian kernels.  Since the hardware is really
> old and we never had a working driver on it for big-endian platforms,
> it's unlikely to make a difference to users.

Applied to 4.20/scsi-fixes. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering