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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 8/8] macvtap/tun: cross-endian support for little-endian hosts
    On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:50:36PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
    > The VNET_LE flag was introduced to fix accesses to virtio 1.0 headers
    > that are always little-endian. It can also be used to handle the special
    > case of a legacy little-endian device implemented by a big-endian host.
    >
    > Let's add a flag and ioctls for big-endian devices as well. If both flags
    > are set, little-endian wins.
    >
    > Since this is isn't a common usecase, the feature is controlled by a kernel
    > config option (not set by default).
    >
    > Both macvtap and tun are covered by this patch since they share the same
    > API with userland.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

    Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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