netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] qeth: Convert use of __constant

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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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