On Jan 8, 2008 12:48 PM, Salyzyn, Mark <Mark_Salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Big endian systems issues discovered in the aacraid driver. ... --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c 2008-01-08 15:32:28.329810853 -0500 +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/comminit.c 2008-01-08 15:37:35.633163607 -0500 @@ -301,10 +301,10 @@ if ((!aac_adapter_sync_cmd(dev, GET_ADAPTER_PROPERTIES, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, status+0, status+1, status+2, NULL, NULL)) && (status[0] == 0x00000001)) { - if (status[1] & AAC_OPT_NEW_COMM_64) + if (status[1] & le32_to_cpu(AAC_OPT_NEW_COMM_64)) ... Why apply le32_to_cpu() to the constant instead of the variable? On systems were le32_to_cpu() is doing something, can gcc or preprocessor optimize the constant? I've always assumed it could not but that might be wrong. thanks, grant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html