Re: bisected regression: qla2xxx endianness on sparc64

[Chad Dupuis]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, Meelis Roos wrote:

> Between 3.17 and 3.18-rc2, qla2xxx is broken on my sparc64 machines. It fails 
> to boot (hangs in firmware rings init).
>
> This is the result of bisect:
>
> 98aee70d19a7e3203649fa2078464e4f402a0ad8 is the first bad commit
> commit 98aee70d19a7e3203649fa2078464e4f402a0ad8
> Author: Joe Carnuccio <joe.carnuccio@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Sep 25 05:16:38 2014 -0400
>
>    qla2xxx: Add endianizer to max_payload_size modifier.
>
>    Signed-off-by: Joe Carnuccio <joe.carnuccio@xxxxxxxxxx>
>    Signed-off-by: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@xxxxxxxxxx>
>    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>
> :040000 040000 041c1a26dc2a7988900acc982e3bd65d3cf7e751 
> 9700d09c3226fc352d44352f22b84f1be632d324 M  s
>
> This may not be the only problem - when bisecting, I also came to commits 
> that got past this step but hang after about 165 seconds of uptime while 
> running userspace startup scripts. But let that be another issue at the 
> moment.

We should revert that change. What were some of the other failures you 
were seeing?
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