netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 01/10] qed: Add module with basic common support

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Date:	Sun, 11 Oct 2015 04:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ariel.Elior@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 01/10] qed: Add module with basic common
 support

From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@...gic.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 14:18:18 +0000

> So far we've worked on stabalizing it on 64-bit LE endian.
> I can easily understand why we'd want to relax this restriction later on
> [and sooner rather than later], but what would you gain be gained by
> compile-fixing for platforms on which it was never tested?

This is exactly the kind of attitude I don't want to see.

I am so glad that so many driver authors supported all PCI platforms
from the very beginning so that casually I could test their driver on
my sparc64 systems.

There is huge value in expanding the compiler testing your driver
gets, from day one.
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