Re: [PATCH net-next V2 5/7] s390/qeth: improve endianness handling

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On 04/10/2017 05:16 PM, David Laight wrote:
> From: Ursula Braun
>> Sent: 07 April 2017 08:16
>> Avoid endianness warnings reported by sparse by (1) using endianness
>> conversions for assigning and using network packet fields, and (2)
>> removing unnecessary endianness conversions from qeth_l3_rebuild_skb. No
>> functional changes.
> ...
>> -	if (*p == ETH_P_8021Q)
>> +	if (be16_to_cpu(*p) == ETH_P_8021Q)
> ...
> 
> This is clearly different on little-endian systems.
> Also (probably) better written as:
> 
> 	if (*p == cpu_to_be16(ETH_P_8021Q))
> 
> so that the constant can by byteswapped.
> 
> 	David
> 

Thanks, we will keep that in mind for future patches.

> 
> 

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