Re: State of big-endian for MegaRAID SAS driver

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>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <ben.c@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Ben,

Ben> Considering your patch has had two success stories (I suspect yours
Ben> was on SPARC, so that would even make two different platforms) and
Ben> low likelihood of regression on little endian, I think it's pretty
Ben> safe.

I ordered a MegaRAID card today so I can test on x86 just to be sure.


Ben> The only thing I think that could make it better is to annotate the
Ben> structures in megaraid_sas.h as __le32 where applicable.

I have an older patch that does just that. And another one that gets rid
of the 32-bit DMA limitations on large systems. But I didn't want to
clutter the initial submission.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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