Re: [PATCH] virtio: console: Make resizing compliant with virtio spec
From: Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner
Date: Thu Mar 20 2025 - 07:59:20 EST
On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 11:41 +0100, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 08:12:23 +0100
> Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner <maxbr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Another thing I noticed during looking at this. AFAICT Linux does
> > > not
> > > seem to handle endiannes here. And AFAIU the message is supposed
> > > to
> > > hold
> > > le16 that is little endian u16! Maximilian, is this in your
> > > opinion
> > > something we need to fix as well? Or am I just missing the
> > > conversion?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Halil
> >
> > Thanks, I didn't notice that, as I only tested this feature on x86.
> > I
> > double checked struct virtio_console_config as it also defines cols
> > before rows, but there the kernel follows the spec (including
> > endianness).
> > I'll send a patch v2 shortly.
>
> I can send a fix for the endiannes issue. It should be a separate
> patch anyway.
>
> Regards,
> Halil
I already implemented it in my patch v2 (just waiting for Amit to
confirm the new commit message). But if you want to split it you can
create a seperate patch for it as well (I don't really mind either
way).