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Date:   Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:29:26 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [net PATCH 1/2] net: dsa: qca8k: fix inband mgmt for big-endian
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 02:44:46PM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 08:53:01PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > >  /* Special struct emulating a Ethernet header */
> > >  struct qca_mgmt_ethhdr {
> > > -	u32 command;		/* command bit 31:0 */
> > > -	u32 seq;		/* seq 63:32 */
> > > -	u32 mdio_data;		/* first 4byte mdio */
> > > +	__le32 command;		/* command bit 31:0 */
> > > +	__le32 seq;		/* seq 63:32 */
> > > +	__le32 mdio_data;		/* first 4byte mdio */
> > >  	__be16 hdr;		/* qca hdr */
> > >  } __packed;
> > 
> > It looks odd that hdr is BE while the rest are LE. Did you check this?
> > 
> >    Andrew
> 
> Yes we did many test to analyze this and I just checked with some
> tcpdump that the hdr is BE everytime.

That might actual make sense. The comment says:

> > >  /* Special struct emulating a Ethernet header */

And hdr is where the Ether type would be, which is network endian,
i.e. big endian.

     Andrew