On 22/03/12 13:48, Dan Carpenter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:27:30PM +0000, Martyn Welch wrote: >> The DMA functionality fails to work on little endian processors, such as >> found on x86 based platforms. The DMA engine copies the link list >> descriptors from memory into big endian registers. On little endian systems >> this results in the values being byte swapped. This patch uses standard >> kernel functionality to ensure that the descriptors are stored in big >> endian format. >> >> Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@xxxxxx> > > Looks good. :) Thanks for doing that. No problem, now that I've been coerced into giving sparse a try I can see me using it more regularly :-) Martyn -- Martyn Welch (Lead Software Engineer) | Registered in England and Wales GE Intelligent Platforms | (3828642) at 100 Barbirolli Square T +44(0)1327322748 | Manchester, M2 3AB E martyn.welch@xxxxxx | VAT:GB 927559189 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
