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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: Make sure IPaddr_t is 32 bits in size
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 11:48:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112021148.12459.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322843172-20251-1-git-send-email-weisserm@arcor.de>

On Friday 02 December 2011 11:26:12 Matthias Weisser wrote:
> When building u-boot as 64 bit application (e.g. sandbox) ulong might be
> 64 bits in size. This breaks network code as IPaddr_t is 64 bytes in
> size then. This patch makes sure that IPaddr_t is always 32 bits in
> size. Also some warnings introduced by this patch are fixed.

on 2nd thought, could you clarify why we want it to be 32bits ?  it's because 
that's the size of the address field in an IPv4 packet ...

> --- a/include/net.h
> +++ b/include/net.h
> 
> -typedef ulong		IPaddr_t;
> +typedef u32		IPaddr_t;

and add a comment here too ...
-mike
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-02 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-02 16:26 [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: Make sure IPaddr_t is 32 bits in size Matthias Weisser
2011-12-02 16:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-12-02 16:48 ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2011-12-03 13:29 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] " Matthias Weisser
2011-12-06 21:15   ` Wolfgang Denk

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