Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:31:54PM -0700, James Ketrenos wrote:
Alright; I'll add replacing the bitfields with bitwise access to the todo
list.
Are you OK with us marking the driver as not working on big endian for now
and getting this one fixed over time?
Given that Intel still hasn't fixed the older ipw2X00 drivers for big
endian despite clong-time onstant prodding I'm dead set against this.
Really? Long time constant prodding?
I'll admit I'm not CC:'d on every email regarding the ipw2100 and ipw2200, so if I missed a long-time and constant thread, please forward it my way.
Searching Google for 'ipw endian' (and several other searches) found a reference to a fix for an endian issue when it was raised for the ipw2200. For the ipw2100 I see a post back in 2004 by one person asking if anyone had tried the ipw2100 on a big endian system.
It just won't happen if you don't do it now.
Well, if you have evidence to this then great. If not, please don't spread FUD.
Historical footnote #1 -- the ipw2200 driver was added to the kernel w/out big endian support:
commit: 43f66a6ce8da299344cf1bc2ac2311889cc88555
Historical footnote #2 -- we fixed big endian problems with the driver in August 2005
commit: a613bffd3aac89bb0a8c9b7afa72af9b0ae30f0a (and a few other commits as users reported issues)
For the ipw2100, aside from one post in 2004 referencing it, I don't see anything.
James
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