Hi Arend, On 10 June 2011 11:52, Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > You are right as with previous mips related patches. Consider this a first > step which does not change functionality but aims to use the proper linux > provided macros instead of our own incarnations.
Actually as far as I can tell this changes (non-)functionality: With the broken big endiness check the driver probably just doesn't work properly on MIPS BE systems, because some endianess conversion is missing*. With the endianess check fixed, the special handling for the Broadcom MIPS get's enabled, potentially crashing the system (or changing random registers), thus making it *more* broken for non BMIPS systems. Therefore I'd rather consider this a regression. Especially since (AFAIK) the BMIPS systems that can take advantage of this aren't supported in Linux (yet). If it were just making things less efficient, I wouldn't be complaining (at least not that much ;-). If you can say that this is a code path that isn't taken anyway, then my point is moot (for now). I don't know the driver enough to tell that. Jonas *assuming brcm80211 depends on this on BE systems and it isn't just an optimization _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
