[PATCH 2/2] Staging: VME: Ensure TSI148 link list descriptors are written big endian

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Thu Mar 22 13:48:31 UTC 2012


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0000, Martyn Welch wrote:
> The DMA functionality fails to work on little endian processors, such as
> found on x86 based platforms. The DMA engine copies the link list
> descriptors from memory into big endian registers. On little endian systems
> this results in the values being byte swapped. This patch uses standard
> kernel functionality to ensure that the descriptors are stored in big
> endian format.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch at ge.com>

Looks good.  :)  Thanks for doing that.

regards,
dan carpenter

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