netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add support for htonb and ntohb

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Message-ID: <1270154854.2192.3.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Date:	Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:47:34 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add support for htonb and ntohb

Le jeudi 01 avril 2010 à 16:32 -0400, Andy Gospodarek a écrit :
> After my recent post to net-2.6 this week to accidentally run htons to a
> u8, it is clear to me we _must_ add some infrastructure to make sure
> single bytes are in the correct network and host order on big and little
> endian systems.  Today seemed like the perfect day to post this.
> 
> This patch adds basic support for htonb and ntohb.  Patches to add this
> in the entire networking tree in _every_ case where a single byte is
> accessed will be posted next week -- I'm almost done with them!
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
> ---

Seems fine, thanks a lot Andy.

Hmm, I notice this doesnt handle yet arches where a byte is 9 bits long.

Do you have any plan, to finally support PDP-6/10 ?



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