netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Fix endian error when requesting device capabilities

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Message-Id: <20170215.144853.563005548603650125.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 14:48:53 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ibmvnic: Fix endian error when requesting device
 capabilities

From: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:32:11 -0600

> When a vNIC client driver requests a faulty device setting, the
> server returns an acceptable value for the client to request.
> This 64 bit value was incorrectly being swapped as a 32 bit value,
> resulting in loss of data. This patch corrects that by using
> the 64 bit swap function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied.