Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] staging: wfx: replace u32 by __le32

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Nov 11 2019 - 18:16:14 EST


On Mon, 2019-11-11 at 16:58 +0000, Jerome Pouiller wrote:
> On Monday 11 November 2019 14:30:55 CET Jules Irenge wrote:
> [...]
> > - u32 count_rts_failures;
> > - u32 count_ack_failures;
> > - u32 count_rx_multicast_frames;
> > - u32 count_rx_frames_success;
> > - u32 count_rx_cmacicv_errors;
> > - u32 count_rx_cmac_replays;
> > - u32 count_rx_mgmt_ccmp_replays;
> [...]
> > + __le32 count_rts_failures;
> > + __le32 count_rx_multicast_frames;
> > + __le32 count_rx_cmacicv_errors;
> > + __le32 count_rx_cmac_replays;
> > + __le32 count_rx_mgmt_ccmp_replays;
> > + __le32 count_rx_beacon;
> > + __le32 count_miss_beacon;
> > + __le32 count_ack_failures;
> > + __le32 count_rx_frames_success;
> > u32 count_rx_bipmic_errors;
> > - u32 count_rx_beacon;
> > - u32 count_miss_beacon;
>
> Hello Jules,
>
> Your patch reorders members of the structure. It will break API with the
> chip.

And if the hardware really is le, then almost certainly
_all_ the members of the struct should be __le32