netdev - [RFC] potential bugs in nexten

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Date:	Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:01:04 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
To:	dhananjay@...xen.com
Cc:	jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] potential bugs in nexten


* what are default: doing in netxen_nic_hw_write_wx()/netxen_nic_hw_read_wx()?
Unlike all other cases they do iomem->iomem copying and AFAICS they are never
actually triggered.

* netxen_nic_flash_print() reads the entire user_info from card *in* *host-endian*,
then uses user_info.serial_number[].
	a) do we need to read the rest?
	b) more interesting question, don't we need cpu_to_le32() here?  After
all, that sucker is an array of char, so we want it in the same order regardless
of the host...

* in netxen_nic_xmit_frame() we do
	hw->cmd_desc_head[saved_producer].flags_opcode =
		cpu_to_le16(hw->cmd_desc_head[saved_producer].flags_opcode);
	hw->cmd_desc_head[saved_producer].num_of_buffers_total_length =
	  cpu_to_le32(hw->cmd_desc_head[saved_producer].
			  num_of_buffers_total_length);
Huh?  Everything that modifies either of those does so in little-endian already.
This code appeared in commit 6c80b18df3537d1221ab34555c150bccbfd90260 (NetXen:
Port swap feature for multi port cards); what's going on there?

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