Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Thu Aug 20 2015 - 00:20:13 EST


On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 11:40 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 23:53 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > On 04/08/2015 02:51, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 11:29 +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> > >> This patch fixes several endianness issues detected when running the HVSI
> > >> driver in little endian mode.
> > >>
> > >> These issues are raised in little endian mode because the data exchanged in
> > >> memory between the kernel and the hypervisor has to be in big endian
> > >> format.

...
>
> So it seems you fixed all the issues, or at least all the issues we can detect
> with sparse. So I'll merge this as-is with an updated changelog.

Unless Greg wants to merge it? But I'll assume he's not bothered unless he says
otherwise as it's a powerpc only driver.

cheers



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