Re: [PATCH] scsi: PC partition tables are little endian

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>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> As sparse correctly pointed out scsi_partsize should use
>> get_unaligned_le32 to read PC partition tables from disk, as they are
>> little endian.
>> 
>> The result of this bug is that we returned incorrect geometries on
>> big endian systems when using the scsicam variant.  Which probably
>> doesn't matter as only old x86 systems every cared about the
>> geometry.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>

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