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Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds

From Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds
Date 2015-11-16 20:00 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:49:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> It turns out that the commit that introduced this used the cpu_to_le32()
>> incorrectly on an 8-bit field, which results in the sense_len to always
>> be set to zero, as the SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE value gets moved to upper
>> byte of the 32-bit intermediate.
>
> More people need to run the sparse checker with -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ and
> have proper endian annotations?

Sure.

But in this case, it shows up as a normal compiler warning on all big endian
platforms.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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[PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-16 18:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-16 19:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2015-11-16 19:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-11-16 20:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> - 2015-11-17 07:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2015-11-18 16:20 +0100

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