Re: [PATCH] ethtool: RX NFC - Convert ip address to big endian.

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 18:40 +0300, nirmu@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote:
> From: Nir Muchtar <nirmu@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nir Muchtar <nirmu@mellanox.com>
> ---
> Unless there's a reason that I'm missing to why the user
> is expected to specify ip addresses in big endian format.
> 
>  rxclass.c |   10 +++++-----
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rxclass.c b/rxclass.c
> index b227901..98d035b 100644
> --- a/rxclass.c
> +++ b/rxclass.c
> @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ static int rxclass_get_ulong(char *str, unsigned long long *val, int size)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int rxclass_get_ipv4(char *str, __be32 *val)
> +static int rxclass_get_ipv4(char *str, u32 *val)
>  {
>  	if (!inet_pton(AF_INET, str, val))
>  		return -1;
[...]

inet_pton() does the conversion to big-endian format.

Ben.

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