netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] be2net: fix mccq create for big endian architectures

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Message-Id: <20100315.154819.102922144.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ajitk@...verengines.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] be2net: fix mccq create for big endian
 architectures

From: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:05:59 +0530

> The request to create an mccq was being dispatched without
> doing a byte swap of num_pages. This byte swap is necessary
> for Big Endian systems like PPC. Not having this fix leads
> mccq create to fail on BE ASICs running newer version of
> firmware, thereby causing driver initialization failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@...verengines.com>

Applied.
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