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Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: disentangle vring endianness stuff from the core code

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  Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: disentangle vring endianness stuff from the  core code Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> - 2016-01-21 11:00 +0100

#1314060 — Re: [PATCH 2/2] vhost: disentangle vring endianness stuff from the core code

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:09:47 +0100
Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The way vring endianness is being handled currently obfuscates
> the code in vhost_init_used().
> 
> This patch tries to fix that by doing the following:
> - move the the code that adjusts endianness to a dedicated helper
> - export this helper so that backends explicitely call it
> 
> No behaviour change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/net.c   |    3 +++
>  drivers/vhost/scsi.c  |    3 +++
>  drivers/vhost/test.c  |    2 ++
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |   16 +++++++++++-----
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h |    1 +
>  5 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

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