Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael-Luke Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 11:20:10 +0100 |
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On 16 May 2007, at 10:41, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > Making a driver work in both modes > of operation is generally not just an issue of adding a couple of > be32_to_cpu()s in the right places.
While this comment is technically correct, Christian's driver achieves endian agnostic operation with only 10 additional lines of code [1].
Thus, there is no reason to assume that gaining LE support will be a major issue.
Michael-Luke
[1] http://www.hohnstaedt.de/ixp_npe/0.3.1/ixp4xx_npe_driver-0.3.1.diff Search in this file for "swap the payload of the SKB" (it's in mac_driver.c)
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