From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: multicast hash incorrect on big endian archs
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 19:24:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15130.61778.471925.245018@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B1A9558.2DBAECE7@colorfullife.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B1A9558.2DBAECE7@colorfullife.com>
Manfred Spraul writes:
> I noticed that the multicast hash calculations assumed little endian
> byte ordering in the winbond-840 driver, and it seems that several other
> drivers are also affected:
>
> 8139too, epic100, fealnx, pci-skeleton, sis900, starfile, sundance,
> via-rhine, yellowfin
> perhaps drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_tulip_cb
Many big-endian systems already need to provide little-endian bitops,
for ext2's sake for example.
We should formalize this, with {set,clear,change,test}_le_bit which
technically every port has implemented in some for or another already.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-04 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-03 19:51 Manfred Spraul
2001-06-04 2:24 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-06-04 7:02 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-06-04 9:35 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-06-04 10:54 ` David S. Miller
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