Re: [PATCH] scsi: ipr: fix build on 32-bit architectures

[Sinan Kaya]

On 6/8/2018 3:20 PM, Brian King wrote:
>> I don't think there is a consensus about using these includes in the community.
>> I bumped into this issue before and came up with an include you pointed.
>> I didn't get too much enthusiasm from the maintainer.
>>
>> Why are we pushing the responsibility into the drivers? I'd think that architecture
>> should take care of this. Is there a portability issue that I'm missing from some
>> architecture I never heart of? (I work on Little-Endian machines most of the time)
> The attributes of the adapter hardware can have an impact here. The ipr hardware, for
> example, depends on the upper 4 bytes to be written first, then the lower 4 bytes
> to be written second, and its the act of writing the lower 4 bytes that triggers
> the adapter hardware to read the value and take action on it.

Thanks, I never thought about this.

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