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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] firewire: endianess fix
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On Wednesday 27 February 2008 02:58:28 pm Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 23 February 2008 06:24:17 am Stefan Richter wrote:
> > The generation of incoming requests was filled in in wrong byte order on
> > machines with big endian CPU.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> > Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
> > ---
> >
> > This patch is a shot in the dark, based on a warning when building with
> > C=1 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__". Is it really a fix, or was the
> > previous code accidentally correct?
> >
> > This needs to be tested on different big endian PCs, if possible with
> > the Apple Uninorth FireWire controller and other types of controllers.
> > One test which involves ohci->request_generation is simply with an SBP-2
> > device (harddisk, CD-ROM...). Does SBP-2 login etc. work?
>
> Works just fine with the Apple UniNorth controller in my powerbook in
> cursory testing. Tested with multiple sbp2 hard disks, plugging and
> unplugging, mounting and unmounting, etc.
>
> > If possible, also test whether the device remains accessible after
> > forcing a bus reset, e.g. by "echo br short > firecontrol". You need
> > the easy to build utility firecontrol and a libraw1394 with "juju"
> > backend. See wiki.linux1394.org for directions.
>
> Forgot to check that it survived bus resets. Will try to double-check that
> tonight.

Survives bus resets just fine, including with ongoing I/O from an sbp2 disk.


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Jarod Wilson
jwilson@redhat.com


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