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

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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:28:59 +0530
From:	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, David.Laight@...lab.com,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] qeth: Convert use of __constant_htons to htons

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:28 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 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.

I have test-compiled this patch on little-endian architecture. I used
this script for cross compilation:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross

And it worked fine for me.

-- 
Vaishali
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