Re: [PATCH 0/6] thunderbolt: property: Fix property parsing on big-endian

[Thomas Weißschuh]

Hi Mika,

On 2026-05-25 11:35:29+0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 03:06:42PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > The parsing logic currently only works on little-endian.
> > Also make it work on big-endian.
> 
> I'm all in making it more portable. Do you have big-endian hardware with
> USB4 support or you are just doing so to cover some future hardware? Also
> how did you test this?

This came up while doing some KUnit runs. I don't have any hardware for
it. I also only tested it with KUnit.

> > The first four patches are necessary to make the parsing work on
> > big-endian machines. The remaining ones are some trivial cleanups.
> > 
> > Based on thunderbolt/fixes.
> 
> I suggest basing on my next branch because these are really not
> regressions, rather you are "improving" the code (and I prefer to keep
> these longer in linux-next so that we could catch any unintended
> side-effects).

Ack. There will be some conflicts between my series, thunderbolt/fixes
and thunderbolt/next. I'll resubmit the patches after -rc1, where these
should have resolved themselves.


Thomas