From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] snic:initial submission of snic driver for Cisco SCSI HBA Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 09:34:48 -0700 Message-ID: <1431707688.26877.3.camel@HansenPartnership.com> References: <1429694642-22309-1-git-send-email-nmusini@cisco.com> <1431704986.2295.2.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bedivere.hansenpartnership.com ([66.63.167.143]:49544 "EHLO bedivere.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751932AbbEOQe6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2015 12:34:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini)" Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "hare@suse.de" On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:08 +0000, Narsimhulu Musini (nmusini) wrote: > Hi James, > > >>This doesn't build on 32 bits. Is it supposed to be 64 bit only? > Yes please, x86_64 arch only. For the kernel, we don't usually accept architectural restrictions. You're perfectly entitled to support only the architectures you wish (and put a warning in the driver if you want) but we do need the code to be endian and bitwidth clean because we find it helps with maintenance and checking (the ppc build systems pick up quite a few snafus that the x86 ones don't). James