From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752473AbXLIM53 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:57:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751201AbXLIM5U (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:57:20 -0500 Received: from asia.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.137.74]:56980 "EHLO asia.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750900AbXLIM5T (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2007 07:57:19 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 13:57:12 +0100 (CET) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: adam radford Cc: Gabriele Gorla , linux-kernel , linux-scsi Subject: Re: Patch submission question [not in the FAQ] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <602863.12913.qm@web53712.mail.re2.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, adam radford wrote: > 2. I removed the bitfields from the 3w-xxxx driver but I have > yet to add full big endian support due to lack of demand. I have > such a patch for this driver (which already includes the unpacking > of the wait_queue_head_t variable) but I have not submitted it to > the main-line kernel. The in-kernel 3w-xxxx driver is still missing > the byte-swaps. > > The 3w-9xxx (9000 series 3ware driver) has full big endian support. > > Is this an official request for big endian support for the 3w-xxxx driver or > are you looking for anybody who has a packed 'wait_queue_head_t' and > submitting a patch to fix it? Alpha is little endian. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds