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

On 16 May 2007, at 10:41, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

Making a driver work in both modes
of operation is generally not just an issue of adding a couple of
be32_to_cpu()s in the right places.

While this comment is technically correct, Christian's driver  
achieves endian agnostic operation with only 10 additional lines of  
code [1].

Thus, there is no reason to assume that gaining LE support will be a  
major issue.

Michael-Luke

[1] http://www.hohnstaedt.de/ixp_npe/0.3.1/ixp4xx_npe_driver-0.3.1.diff
Search in this file for "swap the payload of the SKB" (it's in  
mac_driver.c)