From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Gortmaker Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: revert some previously ABI breaking changes to the user space tipc interface Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:06:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC03ACE.7030308@windriver.com> References: <1287659176-14504-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jon.maloy@ericsson.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, davem@davemloft.net, luca@llucax.com.ar To: nhorman@tuxdriver.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1287659176-14504-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tipc-discussion-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 10-10-21 07:06 AM, nhorman@tuxdriver.com wrote: > Based on discussions with Leandro Lucarella and Jon Maloy, it appears we've > managed to break the TIPC user space ABI. While it would be really nice to have > some level of consistency in regards to on the wire byte order, we can't do that > if it breaks user space. This patch series reverts the offending patches that > caused this, and puts us back in a state that allows user space to work > properly. We can now go back and look at methods to get consistent on the wire > byte order while maintaining host byte order in the user space API. Thanks Neil for working with Jon and Leandro on this and getting a fix out quickly (faster than I could have, for sure.) Paul. > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev