netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH 1/2] testsuite: skip link show test on big endian systems

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 15:12:49 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH 1/2] testsuite: skip link show test on big
 endian systems

On Wed,  8 Feb 2017 00:04:21 +0100
Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> wrote:

> Netlink protocol is in host byte order, so the provided binary netlink
> message buffer being in little endian format will cause the test to fail
> on big endian systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>

Maybe better to figure out how to generate the files in host order?