[U-Boot] [PATCH] net: Make sure IPaddr_t is 32 bits in size

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 02 December 2011 11:26:12 Matthias Weisser wrote:
> When building u-boot as 64 bit application (e.g. sandbox) ulong might be
> 64 bits in size. This breaks network code as IPaddr_t is 64 bytes in
> size then. This patch makes sure that IPaddr_t is always 32 bits in
> size. Also some warnings introduced by this patch are fixed.

on 2nd thought, could you clarify why we want it to be 32bits ?  it's because 
that's the size of the address field in an IPv4 packet ...

> --- a/include/net.h
> +++ b/include/net.h
> 
> -typedef ulong		IPaddr_t;
> +typedef u32		IPaddr_t;

and add a comment here too ...
-mike
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