[ofa-general] ib_umad method mask problems on big-endian 64-bit archs

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 14:20 Fri 31 Aug     , Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>  > Do we have another another user_umad users (OFA or another known, where
>  > switch could be painful)? If not, I will prefer this way instead of
>  > keeping two OpenSMs for ppc64.
> 
> I agree.  After thinking it over, the least painful thing to do to
> update "documentation" (ib_user_mad.h) to match what the kernel does
> now for 64-bit big endian systems, and fix the case of 32-bit big
> endian userspace on a 64-bit kernel.
> 
> I'll post a patch for 2.6.24.

Thanks. I will fix libibumad header and related code then.

Sasha