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virtio: change config to guest endian.
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Sat, 3 May 2008 02:50:49 +0000 (21:50 -0500)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 2 May 2008 11:50:50 +0000 (21:50 +1000)
commit72e61eb40b55dd57031ec5971e810649f82b0259
tree66a836c7799b21156d4fc87f42e5817d7d95535b
parent5539ae9613587e4a4eec42d420b8bdd9ff552a65
virtio: change config to guest endian.

A recent proposed feature addition to the virtio block driver revealed
some flaws in the API, in particular how easy it is to break big
endian machines.

The virtio config space was originally chosen to be little-endian,
because we thought the config might be part of the PCI config space
for virtio_pci.  It's actually a separate mmio region, so that
argument holds little water; as only x86 is currently using the virtio
mechanism, we can change this (but must do so now, before the
impending s390 merge).

API changes:
- __virtio_config_val() just becomes a striaght vdev->config_get() call.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
drivers/block/virtio_blk.c
drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
include/linux/virtio_config.h