ibmveth: Fix endian issues with MAC addresses
authorAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:25:37 +0000 (11:25 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:24:37 +0000 (12:24 +0100)
commitad727c5a26d6a7833471ffe06be55d296f8ce7d9
treea537a65ba586b0f90fb997d549a242d5367ed87c
parent59d9c5f94655a3cc63e2772e847509010598b7f1
ibmveth: Fix endian issues with MAC addresses

commit d746ca9561440685edb62614d1bcbbc27ff50e66 upstream.

The code to load a MAC address into a u64 for passing to the
hypervisor via a register is broken on little endian.

Create a helper function called ibmveth_encode_mac_addr
which does the right thing in both big and little endian.

We were storing the MAC address in a long in struct ibmveth_adapter.
It's never used so remove it - we don't need another place in the
driver where we create endian issues with MAC addresses.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.c
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmveth.h