netdev - Re: [patch v2] caif: fix endian conversion in cffrml

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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:20:09 +0100
From:	Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] caif: fix endian conversion in cffrml_transmit()

> The "tmp" variable here is used to store the result of cpu_to_le16()
> so it should be an __le16 instead of an int.  We want the high bits
> set and the current code works on little endian systems but not on
> big endian systems.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---
> v2:  In v1 I used a u16 instead of an __le16.  Also I've changed the
> name to "data" instead of "tmp".

Thanks Dan, good catch - this would have failed badly on a b_e architecture.

Acked-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@...ricsson.com>

Regards,
Sjur
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