On Monday 12 February 2007 13:59, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:12:56AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Monday 12 February 2007 09:03, Amit Kale wrote:
> > > The already released kernel contains a broken driver.  It broke due to
> > > some code rearrangement changes someone submitted to fix sparse
> > > warnings.
>
> s/sparse warnings/breakage on big-endian boxen/, actually.  This stuff
> was sent to netdev tree and sat there for a while.  Pity if some breakage
> occured and went unnoticed; could you give more details?

We were in middle of other changes last week. 

Here it is.  This is FYI only. We'll send a set of patches with this change as 
well as some other in a short time.

diff -Narup not_working/netxen/netxen_nic.h got_working/netxen/netxen_nic.h
--- not_working/netxen/netxen_nic.h     2007-02-08 23:20:34.468721000 -0800
+++ got_working/netxen/netxen_nic.h     2007-02-08 23:19:44.526769000 -0800
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ typedef u32 netxen_ctx_msg;
 #define netxen_set_msg_ctxid(config_word, val) \
        ((config_word) &= ~(0x3ff<<18), (config_word) |= (val & 0x3ff) << 18)
 #define netxen_set_msg_opcode(config_word, val)        \
-       ((config_word) &= ~(0xf<<24), (config_word) |= (val & 0xf) << 24)
+       ((config_word) &= ~(0xf<<28), (config_word) |= (val & 0xf) << 28)
 
 struct netxen_rcv_context {
        __le64 rcv_ring_addr;
@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ struct netxen_ring_ctx {
        ((cmd_desc)->num_of_buffers_total_length &= ~cpu_to_le32(0xff), \
        (cmd_desc)->num_of_buffers_total_length |= cpu_to_le32((val) & 0xff))
 #define netxen_set_cmd_desc_totallength(cmd_desc, val) \
-       ((cmd_desc)->num_of_buffers_total_length &= cpu_to_le32(0xff), \
-       (cmd_desc)->num_of_buffers_total_length |= cpu_to_le32(val << 24))
+       ((cmd_desc)->num_of_buffers_total_length &= cpu_to_le32(0xffffff), \
+       (cmd_desc)->num_of_buffers_total_length |= cpu_to_le32(val << 8))
 
 #define netxen_get_cmd_desc_opcode(cmd_desc)   \
        ((le16_to_cpu((cmd_desc)->flags_opcode) >> 7) & 0x003F)
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