From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755917AbZKQMJT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:09:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755723AbZKQMJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:09:18 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:38135 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755607AbZKQMJR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:09:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:09:34 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20091117.040934.190018835.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 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Shreyas Bhatewara Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:41:33 -0800 (PST) > > Getting rid of the x86 dependency to built vmxnet3 > > From: Shreyas Bhatewara > > 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 Patch applied, thanks for following up on this.