RE: [PATCH 8/12] mpt2sas - mpi headers

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On Thursday, November 13, 2008 2:40 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:31:48PM -0700, Moore, Eric wrote:
> > The only typedefs in the entire driver are those found in
> the mpi subfolder.  The mpi subfolder contains headers that
> define the common message passing interface between device
> driver/application and firmware.  These headers are provided
> by the firmware group to every device driver and application
> writer.  There have been several revisions of the headers
> thru out the past year or so.    I think what your asking is
> an entire rewrite of all these headers.   I really don't
> think that is a good idea.
>
> We don't have to rewrite all of them, but you at least need to get the
> endian annotations right.  Easiest way to do that would be to just run
> a sed script over the version you get from the FW teams to use the
> proper __le types instead of the strange U* typedefs.
>
>

Ok, I misunderstood earlier.   So your concern is only over U16, U32, and U64, right?    I'll fix that up before I repost.

Eric
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