Manfred Spraul writes:
> I noticed that the multicast hash calculations assumed little endian
> byte ordering in the winbond-840 driver, and it seems that several other
> drivers are also affected:
>
> 8139too, epic100, fealnx, pci-skeleton, sis900, starfile, sundance,
> via-rhine, yellowfin
> perhaps drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_tulip_cb
Many big-endian systems already need to provide little-endian bitops,
for ext2's sake for example.
We should formalize this, with {set,clear,change,test}_le_bit which
technically every port has implemented in some for or another already.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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