Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 16:44:25 +0200 |
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> Not even trying to support LE is a clear merge blocker. Maybe Krzysztof > can't actually test it himself, which is fine - but not even pretending > to be endian clean is not what proper Linux drivers do.
The drivers can only work with IXP4xx CPU and that's not the typical endianess problem cross-platform drivers sometimes have.
There is different functionality required with LE mode, unless some other arch changes are implemented (which I'm now researching, if I have some time of course). -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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