From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add support for htonb and ntohb
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:47:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270154854.2192.3.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100401203209.GC28741@gospo.rdu.redhat.com>
Le jeudi 01 avril 2010 à 16:32 -0400, Andy Gospodarek a écrit :
> After my recent post to net-2.6 this week to accidentally run htons to a
> u8, it is clear to me we _must_ add some infrastructure to make sure
> single bytes are in the correct network and host order on big and little
> endian systems. Today seemed like the perfect day to post this.
>
> This patch adds basic support for htonb and ntohb. Patches to add this
> in the entire networking tree in _every_ case where a single byte is
> accessed will be posted next week -- I'm almost done with them!
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
> ---
Seems fine, thanks a lot Andy.
Hmm, I notice this doesnt handle yet arches where a byte is 9 bits long.
Do you have any plan, to finally support PDP-6/10 ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-01 20:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-01 20:32 [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add support for htonb and ntohb Andy Gospodarek
2010-04-01 20:47 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2010-04-02 0:03 ` Neil Horman
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