Re: [2.4 patch] Port of adutux driver from 2.6 kernel to 2.4.

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:48:54PM +0300, Vitaliy Ivanov wrote:
> Pete,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 20:30, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> 
> > > +	in_end_size = le16_to_cpu(dev->interrupt_in_endpoint->wMaxPacketSize);
> > > +	out_end_size = le16_to_cpu(dev->interrupt_out_endpoint->wMaxPacketSize);
> > 
> > Did you verify if this works? We use pre-swapped descriptors in 2.4.
> > I suspect you allocate 256 times more memory than necessary.
> 
> Just checked. Seems to be OK. At least printk shows shows it.

That's probably because you tested this on a little-endian machine :)

Pete is right, this code is incorrect for 2.4, drop the le16_to_cpu
function, the wMaxPacketSize variable is in native-endian form in 2.4
and early 2.6 versions.

thanks,

greg k-h
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