From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751399AbWIYRnj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:43:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751391AbWIYRnj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:43:39 -0400 Received: from stat9.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.41]:5310 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751388AbWIYRni (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:43:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix idiocy in asd_init_lseq_mdp() From: James Bottomley To: "Hammer, Jack" , Al Viro Cc: Luben Tuikov , dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060925173922.GL29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <4517EBF7.4020508@torque.net> <20060925171634.69667.qmail@web31809.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060925173922.GL29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:43:22 -0400 Message-Id: <1159206202.3463.62.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 18:39 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Far more interesting question: where does the hardware expect to see > the > upper 16 bits of that 32bit value? Which one it is - > LmSEQ_INTEN_SAVE(lseq) > ori LmSEQ_INTEN_SAVE(lseq) + 2? I don't honestly know. The change was made as part of a slew of changes by Robert Tarte at Adaptec to make the driver run on Big Endian platforms. I've copied Jack Hammer who's now looking after it in the hope that he can enlighten us. James