On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:55:23PM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > Anyway, looking at drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/srp.h, the main problem I see > is that the file has a bunch of bitfields that are big-endian only > (which makes sense because the driver can only be compiled for pSeries > or iSeries anyway). > > But I have no objection to moving the file to include/scsi/srp.h, > adding a bunch of > > #if defined(__LITTLE_ENDIAN_BITFIELD) > #elif defined(__BIG_ENDIAN_BITFIELD) > #endif > > and adding a few missing defines, and then converting ib_srp to use > the same file. > > Does that seem like the right thing to do?
No. Bitfields for accessing hardware/wire datastructures are wrong and will always break in some circumstances. Your header is much better. > > Thanks, > Roland > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general ---end quoted text--- _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
