Re: [PATCH 1/9] ax88179_178a: Fix endianness of pause watermark register

[Birger Koblitz]

Thanks for reviewing this Andrew!

On 7/1/26 16:57, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2026 at 07:42:47AM +0200, Birger Koblitz wrote:
> > The 16-bit pause watermark register is little endian as
> > described in the ASIX 4.1.0 out-of-tree driver. Correct the
> > register byte sequence but also swap the configuration values
> > used in the code in order to keep the current behaviour.
> >
> > The endianness is relevant for 16-bit writes to the register.
>
> Is this a Fix which should be back ported in stable?

No. The behaviour of the code does not change, this merely
assigns correct names to registers, which is only interesting
for new code, which will be based on the latest Linux code.

Birger