From: Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 00:28:59 +0530 > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:28 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:53:42 +0200 >> >>> qeth is an s390-driver, and s390 is a big-endian architecture. Thus >>> arguments valid for little-endian do not apply to qeth-code. >> >> You can not throw out generally good tree-wide conventions just because >> it happens to work on your platform. >> >> In fact, I would be really thrilled if some of this code could be compiled >> on other platforms via COMPILE_TEST or similar, especially the socket code >> and drivers. > > I have test-compiled this patch on little-endian architecture. I used > this script for cross compilation: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wfg/lkp-tests.git/plain/sbin/make.cross If you cross compiled "from" a little endian architecture, that doesn't mean anything. What matters is if you compiled this code "targetting" a little-endian architecture which currently is not possible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
