netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes

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Message-ID: <821ABD80-7BA0-4A8B-B7DC-87D3B0BA9ADF@qlogic.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:57:47 -0800
From:	Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@...gic.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes


On Jan 14, 2010, at 3:08 AM, David Miller wrote:

> You mean in all this time, nobody noticed that reading the MAC
> address isn't done correctly on big-endian?
> 
> Well then I guess all of these small endianness fixes aren't
> very critical this late in the RC series.

The MAC fix doesn't change any functionality, just changing data types.
It was working on big-endian machines.

-Dhananjay


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