netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: Fix more little endian issues

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Message-ID: <1387810329.22671.66.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Mon, 23 Dec 2013 06:52:09 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Dinar Valeev <dvaleev@...e.com>,
	Santiago Leon <santil@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmveth: Fix more little endian issues

On Mon, 2013-12-23 at 17:38 +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> The hypervisor expects MAC addresses passed in registers to be big
> endian u64.

So maybe use __be64 declarations?

> +static unsigned long ibmveth_encode_mac_addr(char *mac)

static __be64 ibmveth_encode_mac_addr(const char *mac)

?

etc...


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