tree 6ea377a9e3af563498da8389a3b9a2e5c80f4e14
parent 33d8e6a5f555b0d61cb3cb0e3c28e611c7408f4e
author Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com> 1388044629 +0200
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1388083101 -0500

bnx2x: add Big-Endian ethtool comment

There's a known issue that using `ethtool -e' flips the endianity of the
written data, i.e., using `ethtool -E' to dump eeprom image and than using
`ethtool -e' to re-write that same image will result in an image where
the data has the opposite endianity.
Sadly, this cannot be fixed as there are already various tools deployed
based on the endianity of the eeprom read/write.
Instead, a comment is added to the code to help explain why this is un-fixable.

Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>