Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: hip04: use the big endian for tx and rx desc

On 2015/4/15 22:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

On Wednesday 15 April 2015 20:30:04 Ding Tianhong wrote:

quoted

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:

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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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