[U-Boot] ext4 write support and big-endian machines

[Michael Walle]

Am 2016-08-05 14:06, schrieb Michael Walle:
> there doesn't seem to be a dedicated filesystem maintainer, but I've
> included the original committer for the ext4 write support.
> 
> I guess the ext4 write support does not work on big-endian machines.
> As far as I see, almost no fields of the ext4 structures within the
> write code are byteswapped. That is very unfortunate ;)
> If I understand the code correctly, the fields are swapped on every
> access individually. This means we have to go through the "ext4 write"
> code and look at every field which is accessed and add an appropriate
> le{16,32}_to_cpu() call.  Puh ;)
> 
> Btw. is the kernel style le16_to_cpu preferred to __le16_to_cpu()?

ping anyone?

-michael