On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:36:56PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:36:02PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:14:40PM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote: > > > The following changes since commit > > > 7d49f0bac41ee9b012af1efe2f725d91a87a8fe9: > > > > > > USB: Maintainers change for usb serial drivers (2013-10-31 08:53:52 > > > -0700) > > > > > > are available in the git repository at: > > > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sarah/xhci.git > > > tags/for-usb-linus-2013-11-27 > > > > > > for you to fetch changes up to 172a894f74e090f3aada7b0347d334ad9db14a36: > > > > > > xhci: fix incorrect type in assignment in xhci_address_device() > > > (2013-11-18 10:10:13 -0800) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > xhci: Big-endian sparse fixes. > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > Here's five sparse cleanups that make the xHCI driver actually work on > > > big-endian machines. They're all marked for stable. > > > > Why is a new feature like big-endian support for xhci a stable thing?
It's not a new feature. The xHCI driver has supported big-endian systems for ages (since 3.0 I think). There were several xHCI structures that had variables marked with __le32 to make sure the driver continued to work on big-endian systems. However, I was lax, and code got into 3.4 and 3.12 that broke the driver under big endian systems. Sparse found those issues, and Xenia cleaned them up. > > And something that isn't ok for 3.13-final? > > Wait, sorry, this is for 3.13-final? These are fixes to be queued for 3.13. > totally confused. > > And if it is, is this a regression? It looks like a new feature to me. Yes, it's a regression that has been there since 3.4. No one complained about it since then, so I seriously considered whether they should go into stable or not. Does that explanation make sense? Sarah Sharp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
