From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755066Ab0JTSpR (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:45:17 -0400 Received: from alerce.vps.bitfolk.com ([212.13.194.134]:2661 "EHLO alerce.vps.bitfolk.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754217Ab0JTSpP (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:45:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:44:24 -0300 From: Leandro Lucarella To: Jon Maloy Cc: Neil Horman , David Miller , "paul.gortmaker@windriver.com" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.35/TIPC 2.0 ABI breaking changes Message-ID: <20101020184424.GQ8781@llucax.com.ar> References: <20101018234547.GA5703@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20101019021657.GZ8781@llucax.com.ar> <20101019.011649.71113115.davem@davemloft.net> <20101019110452.GA14410@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20101019131936.GB8781@llucax.com.ar> <20101019201841.GC14410@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20101020172018.GN8781@llucax.com.ar> <0434463FDA60A94FA978ACA44617682DEE84668199@EUSAACMS0702.eamcs.ericsson.se> <20101020182411.GO8781@llucax.com.ar> <0434463FDA60A94FA978ACA44617682DEE8466821E@EUSAACMS0702.eamcs.ericsson.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0434463FDA60A94FA978ACA44617682DEE8466821E@EUSAACMS0702.eamcs.ericsson.se> X-Paranoid: Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jon Maloy, el 20 de octubre a las 14:37 me escribiste: > > I think if they really go through the wire, it should be in > > NBO, and if tipc_subscr and tipc_event are used only > > internally, we can still fix the userspace messages when > > sending them through the wire. > > There are plenty of protocols around not using NBO over the wire. > This is not a must. Of course, but is harder to sniff and debug if you haven't a fixed BO, so, if it's easy to adjust transparently to userspace, I think it could worth the trouble. But my main concern is backwards compatibility, everything else is secondary :) -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Muppet show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia Because one of its stars was a pig