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

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Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:03:44 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: add support for htonb and ntohb

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:47:34PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

definately, and while your at it, I could really use some conversion routines
for the more complex types just to save time.  htonstr and ntohstr in particular




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