Re: [PATCH v2] Implement IP_UNICAST_IF socket option.

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>]

Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 08:21 -0700, Erich E. Hoover a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > BTW, do we really want the htonl() thing, and force device indexes in
> > 2^24 range ? This seems odd anyway.
> > ...
> 
> I can easily perform both of these steps in Wine.  The 2^24 limitation
> in particular seems artificial, and especially silly to add to the
> kernel if it will change the fundamental range of the indices.  With
> regard to htonl(), David Miller indicated that the API should match
> what other systems use (a 32-bit network byte order word), though he
> may not have meant his comment that specifically.  I can see the
> merits of doing it both ways and I'm not particularly attached to
> either one.

I have no strong feeling, I only wanted to point out our current device
indexes range is [1 .. (2^31 - 1) ]