The Linux Kernel Mailing List
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll endian fixes
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:29:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907232927.GB31237@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409080124.43530.baldrick@free.fr>

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:24:43AM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> The big-endians took their revenge in netpoll.c: on i386,
> the ip header length / version nibbles need to be the other
> way round; and the htonl leaves only zeros in tot_len...

I'm completely baffled as to how length / version nibbles could be
swapped. Endianness here should be a matter of _bytes_.

The htons seems reasonable.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 23:24 [PATCH] netpoll endian fixes Duncan Sands
2004-09-07 23:29 ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2004-09-08  6:56   ` Duncan Sands
2004-09-07 23:57 ` Matt Mackall
2004-09-08 10:01   ` Duncan Sands
2004-09-08 22:53     ` Matt Mackall
2004-09-09  9:31       ` Duncan Sands
     [not found] <77423609@toto.iv>
2004-09-09  2:09 ` Peter Chubb

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20040907232927.GB31237@waste.org \
    --to=mpm@selenic.com \
    --cc=baldrick@free.fr \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox