netdev - Re: /proc/net/igmp group address encoding

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Date:	Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roszenrami@...il.com
Cc:	dlstevens@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org, pekkas@...core.fi
Subject: Re: /proc/net/igmp group address encoding

From: "Rami Rosen" <roszenrami@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:59:13 +0300

> > since I believe netstat expects to see this the way it is.
> Thanks  for drawing my attention to this; due to this , displaying in
> quad format should not be implemented.

Indeed, netstat even seems to transparently handle the fact that the
value is kept in big-endian (rather than being converted using
be32_to_cpu()) as it is printed by the kernel, regardless of cpu
endianness.
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