Re: [PATCH, resend] scsi: advansys: fix big-endian builds

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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 05:49:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> It turns out that the commit that introduced this used the cpu_to_le32()
>> incorrectly on an 8-bit field, which results in the sense_len to always
>> be set to zero, as the SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE value gets moved to upper
>> byte of the 32-bit intermediate.
>
> More people need to run the sparse checker with -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ and
> have proper endian annotations?

Sure.

But in this case, it shows up as a normal compiler warning on all big endian
platforms.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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