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

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Message-Id: <20100114.165438.39939357.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:54:38 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dhananjay.phadke@...gic.com
Cc:	amit.salecha@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] netxen: endianness fixes

From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@...gic.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:57:47 -0800

> 
> 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.

Then that's a cleanup and thus even less appropriate for net-2.6
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