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Date:   Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:45:14 -0800
From:   William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        pravin shelar <pshelar@....org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 2/2] openvswitch: add erspan version I and II support

Hi Jiri,

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com> wrote:
> Looks much better.
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 09:32:51 -0800, William Tu wrote:
>> +     OVS_ERSPAN_OPT_IDX,     /* be32 index */
>
> Why don't you convert this to u32 while passing to/from user space?
>
>> +     [OVS_ERSPAN_OPT_IDX]    = { .len = sizeof(u32) },
>
> sizeof(__be32) but see above.
>
> Thanks,
>
>  Jiri

Thanks. Your suggestion makes sense.
In the beginning I just want to avoid another ntoh, hton conversion.
Since the ERSPAN iproute2 also assume u32 to/from userspace, I will
change it here to use u32.

William

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