Prafulla Wadaskar wrote:
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: l.ping...@gmail.com [mailto:l.ping...@gmail.com] On 
>> Behalf Of Remy Bohmer
>> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:00 PM
>> To: Prafulla Wadaskar; Michael Trimarchi
>> Cc: u-boot@lists.denx.de; Prabhanjan Sarnaik; Ronen Shitrit; 
>> Ashish Karkare
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] usb: add Marvell Kirkwood ehci host 
>> controller driver
>>
>> Hello Prafulla,
>>
>>     
>>> As stated in other email thread too.
>>> Now all dependencies for Sheevaplug board support are in accepted 
>>> state except this patch 
>>> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-June/055112.html
>>>       
>> I know that but I cannot test it because I do not have the 
>> hardware, so I depend on others here. (it might be even you). 
>> I already mentioned that I would prefer the cleanup patch 
>> from Michael Trimarchi, if it is correct.
>>
>> At least there is 1 significant difference between your patch 
>> and the patch of Michael
>>
>> Your patch contains this:
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> -    typeReq = req->request << 8 | req->requesttype;
>> +    typeReq = req->request | req->requesttype << 8;
>>
>>      switch (le16_to_cpu(typeReq)) {
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> and Michael patch contains this:
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>> -    typeReq = req->request << 8 | req->requesttype;
>> +    typeReq = req->request | req->requesttype << 8;
>>
>> -    switch (le16_to_cpu(typeReq)) {
>> +    switch (typeReq) {
>>     
> Dear Remy
> These two lines makes no difference for me since le16_to_cpu macro doesn't 
> change anything for arm little-endian machines (i.e. Sheevaplug)
> Well.. for big endian machines someone need to check since it swaps bytes.
>
> I think we should not remove this macro since it provides arch specific 
> abstraction.
>   
If you don't remove the macro I think that you have trouble with big endian
machines.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/usb/core/hcd.c;h=95ccfa0b9fc52876f5166b3edea039409adf9a33;hb=HEAD

line 442

Michael
> Regards..
> Prafulla . .
>
>   
>> --------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> So, at least one of them is wrong.
>> This difference is reason enough for me to not pull either 
>> patch in until this is clear.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Remy
>>
>>     

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