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[dpdk-dev,v5,11/62] net/qede/base: add comment

Message ID 1490819822-27267-12-git-send-email-rasesh.mody@cavium.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ferruh Yigit
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ci/checkpatch success coding style OK
ci/Intel-compilation success Compilation OK

Commit Message

Mody, Rasesh March 29, 2017, 8:36 p.m. UTC 
  Add a comment for the endianness manipulation in
ecore_mcp_send_drv_version().

Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>
---
 drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_mcp.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_mcp.c b/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_mcp.c
index 245d478..df6ebd2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_mcp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qede/base/ecore_mcp.c
@@ -1662,6 +1662,7 @@  ecore_mcp_send_drv_version(struct ecore_hwfn *p_hwfn, struct ecore_ptt *p_ptt,
 	p_drv_version->version = p_ver->version;
 	num_words = (MCP_DRV_VER_STR_SIZE - 4) / 4;
 	for (i = 0; i < num_words; i++) {
+		/* The driver name is expected to be in a big-endian format */
 		p_name = &p_ver->name[i * sizeof(u32)];
 		val = OSAL_CPU_TO_BE32(*(u32 *)p_name);
 		*(u32 *)&p_drv_version->name[i * sizeof(u32)] = val;