On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:50:36PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote: > The VNET_LE flag was introduced to fix accesses to virtio 1.0 headers > that are always little-endian. It can also be used to handle the special > case of a legacy little-endian device implemented by a big-endian host. > > Let's add a flag and ioctls for big-endian devices as well. If both flags > are set, little-endian wins. > > Since this is isn't a common usecase, the feature is controlled by a kernel > config option (not set by default). > > Both macvtap and tun are covered by this patch since they share the same > API with userland. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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