netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] ibmveth: Convert multicast list size for little-endian system

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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:35:57 +0800
From:   Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To:     Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, joe@...ches.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] ibmveth: Convert multicast list size for
 little-endian system

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 04:13:06PM -0500, Thomas Falcon wrote:
> The ibm,mac-address-filters property defines the maximum number of
> addresses the hypervisor's multicast filter list can support. It is
> encoded as a big-endian integer in the OF device tree, but the virtual
> ethernet driver does not convert it for use by little-endian systems.
> As a result, the driver is not behaving as it should on affected systems
> when a large number of multicast addresses are assigned to the device.
> 
> Reported-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>

Thanks, I tested and it works good.