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From:   Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:22:42 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] staging: fieldbus: anybus-s: force endiannes annotation
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:03 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Keep it bus-endian, as that's the "normal" way bus structures work (like
> PCI and USB for example), and that should be in a documented, and
> consistent, form, right?
>
> Then do the conversion when you access the field from within the kernel.

Ah ok, it's like a standard way of implementing a bus. Sounds good, I'll
spin a patch to conform to it. And while I'm at it, I'll rename fieldbus_type
because it can be confused with another fieldbus_type within the
fieldbus_dev core.