Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Michael Ellerman Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/hvsi: Fix endianness issues in the HVSI driver Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:30:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.11-0ubuntu3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: robomod@news.nic.it List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 28 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Cc: Jiri Slaby , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Laurent Dufour X-Original-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:20:04 +1000 X-Original-Message-ID: <1440044404.13406.13.camel@ellerman.id.au> X-Original-References: <1438334990-11765-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1438649494.9418.0.camel@ellerman.id.au> <55D4FAE9.7000504@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1440034811.13406.9.camel@ellerman.id.au> X-Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Xref: csiph.com linux.kernel:1210139 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 -- 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/