From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sbhatewara@vmware.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc3] net: Getting rid of the x86 dependency to built vmxnet3
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:09:34 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091117.040934.190018835.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0911161053050.23246@sbhatewara-dev1.eng.vmware.com>
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:41:33 -0800 (PST)
>
> Getting rid of the x86 dependency to built vmxnet3
>
> From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
>
> This patch removes config dependency on x86 to build vmxnet3 driver. Thus
> the driver can be built on big endian architectures now. Although vmxnet3
> is not supported on VMs other than x86 architecture, all this code goes in
> to ensure correctness. If the code is not dependent on x86, it should not
> assume little endian architecture in any of its operations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Patch applied, thanks for following up on this.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 12:09 UTC|newest]
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2009-11-16 23:41 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
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