From: Hassan Naveed <hassan.nav...@imgtec.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:13:22 -0800
> Fix pch_gbe driver for ethernet operations for a big endian CPU.
> Values written to and read from transmit and receive descriptors
> in the pch_gbe driver are byte swapped from the perspective of a
> big endian CPU, since the ethernet controller always operates in
> little endian mode. Rectify this by appropriately byte swapping
> these descriptor field values in the driver software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hassan Naveed <hassan.nav...@imgtec.com>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@imgtec.com>
> Reviewed-by: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfe...@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfe...@imgtec.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de>
> Cc: françois romieu <rom...@fr.zoreil.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2: Additionally changed transmit and receive descriptors field
> types to __le{16,32}. Ran sparse with endianness checking enabled and no
> new warnings were generated.
This doesn't apply cleanly to the 'net' tree, please respin.
