netdev - Re: Some NIPQUAD_FMT -> %pI4 conversions are broken

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Message-Id: <20090109.221554.190779821.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:15:54 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	harvey.harrison@...il.com
Cc:	rdreier@...co.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some NIPQUAD_FMT -> %pI4 conversions are broken

From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:07:25 -0800

> My apologies indeed, the best choice I think is to add a temp var
> for now and I'll work with you to eliminate the byteswapping further
> up the callchain so a be32 gets passed down, but that might be too
> involved for 2.6.29.

Alternatively we could provide a %p* variant that took
cpu endian addresses.

I don't know how useful that would be, generally.
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