[PATCH net-next 2/6] net: hip04: use the big endian for tx and rx desc
Ding Tianhong
dingtianhong at huawei.com
Wed Apr 15 23:25:26 PDT 2015
On 2015/4/15 22:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 April 2015 20:30:04 Ding Tianhong wrote:
>> The hip04 ethernet use the big endian for tx and rx, so set desc to
>> big endian and remove the unused next_addr.
>
> I don't understand:
>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
>> index b0a7f03..6473462 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c
>> @@ -132,19 +132,18 @@
>> #define HIP04_MIN_TX_COALESCE_FRAMES 1
>>
>> struct tx_desc {
>> - u32 send_addr;
>> - u32 send_size;
>> - u32 next_addr;
>> - u32 cfg;
>> - u32 wb_addr;
>> + __be32 send_addr;
>> + __be32 send_size;
>> + __be32 cfg;
>> + __be32 wb_addr;
>> } __aligned(64);
>
> I would think this is a hardware structure, does this not break
> access to the cfg and wb_addr fields if you remove next_addr?
>
> Arnd
>
good cache, I make a mistake here, thanks.
> .
>
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