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Message-Id: <20150820.105810.2093197275802835044.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:58:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: David.Laight@...LAB.COM, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, ursula.braun@...ibm.com,
vthakkar1994@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] qeth: Convert use of __constant_htons to
htons
From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:53:42 +0200
> qeth is an s390-driver, and s390 is a big-endian architecture. Thus
> arguments valid for little-endian do not apply to qeth-code.
You can not throw out generally good tree-wide conventions just because
it happens to work on your platform.
In fact, I would be really thrilled if some of this code could be compiled
on other platforms via COMPILE_TEST or similar, especially the socket code
and drivers.
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