Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

[Krzysztof Halasa]

Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Not even trying to support LE is a clear merge blocker.  Maybe Krzysztof
> can't actually test it himself, which is fine - but not even pretending
> to be endian clean is not what proper Linux drivers do.

The drivers can only work with IXP4xx CPU and that's not the typical
endianess problem cross-platform drivers sometimes have.

There is different functionality required with LE mode, unless some
other arch changes are implemented (which I'm now researching, if
I have some time of course).
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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