netdev - Some NIPQUAD_FMT -> %pI4 conversions are broken

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Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:47:51 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Some NIPQUAD_FMT -> %pI4 conversions are broken

I just noticed (by getting a messed up print in my kernel log) that most
of the changes to drivers/infiniband/hw/nes in commit 63779436
("drivers: replace NIPQUAD()") were wrong: the idea was to change printk
statements like

	printk("..." NIPQUAD_FMT "...", NIPQUAD(foo));

but most of the changes in nes were to code like

	printk("..." NIPQUAD_FMT "...", HIPQUAD(foo));

ie *H* IPQUAD not *N* IPQUAD, indicating the foo is in host endian
order, and hence the new code

	printk("...%pI4...", &foo);

prints the IP in reverse order now.

I don't see a good way to fix this without introducing a temporary
variable to hold a swapped IP address... but is there a better way?

 - R.
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