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Re: [PATCH] vt6656: [BUG] - Failed connection, incorrect endian. v2

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On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 16:20 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 03:54 PM, Malcolm Priestley wrote:
> >
> > This patch fixes a bug with driver failing to negotiate a connection.
> >
> > The bug was traced to commit
> > 203e4615ee9d9fa8d3506b9d0ef30095e4d5bc90
> > staging: vt6656: removed custom definitions of Ethernet packet types
> >
> > In that patch, definitions in include/linux/if_ether.h replaced ones
> > in tether.h which had both big and little endian definitions.
> >
> > include/linux/if_ether.h only refers to big endian values, cpu_to_be16
> > should be used for the correct endian architectures.
> >
> > checkpatch fixed version.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Patches for staging drivers should be sent to gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. He is 
> the one that handles them. In addition, the patch subject line usually has the 
> sequence "staging: vt6656: blabla" the way the faulty patch did.

Thanks

I have forwarded the patch.


Regards


Malcolm



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