Re: multicast hash incorrect on big endian archs

[David S. Miller]

Manfred Spraul writes:
 > I noticed that the multicast hash calculations assumed little endian
 > byte ordering in the winbond-840 driver, and it seems that several other
 > drivers are also affected:
 > 
 > 8139too, epic100, fealnx, pci-skeleton, sis900, starfile, sundance,
 > via-rhine, yellowfin
 > perhaps drivers/net/pcmcia/xircom_tulip_cb

Many big-endian systems already need to provide little-endian bitops,
for ext2's sake for example.

We should formalize this, with {set,clear,change,test}_le_bit which
technically every port has implemented in some for or another already.

Later,
David S. Miller
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