netdev - Re: [PATCH ] cdc_ncm: fixes for big-endian architecture / MIPS

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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:45:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
cc:	Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@...il.com>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Alexey Orishko <alexey.orishko@...ricsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ] cdc_ncm: fixes for big-endian architecture / MIPS

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 2. August 2011, 18:20:26 schrieb Alexey Orishko:
> > Changes:
> > - removed redandunt conversion for usb control requests
> > - added missing conversion for nth16.wNdpIndex
> > Thanks to Giuseppe Scrivano for providing fixes
> 
> What? How can a conversion of endianness be redundant?

When it's done twice.  :-)

> Either this version or the old version must be buggy. What is
> happening here?

The old version is buggy.  Read the code and you'll see.

Alan Stern

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