netdev - Re: [iproute PATCH 1/2] testsuite: skip link show test on big endian systems

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Date:   Wed, 8 Feb 2017 00:49:40 +0100
From:   Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute PATCH 1/2] testsuite: skip link show test on big endian
 systems

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 03:12:49PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed,  8 Feb 2017 00:04:21 +0100
> Phil Sutter <phil@....cc> wrote:
> 
> > Netlink protocol is in host byte order, so the provided binary netlink
> > message buffer being in little endian format will cause the test to fail
> > on big endian systems.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
> 
> Maybe better to figure out how to generate the files in host order?

Yes, I had thought about that as well. Not sure whether it's worth the
effort though to write a program which constructs the messages and dumps
them into a file for 'ip monitor' to read. I think there's a certain
chance this will eventually test the message builder instead of iproute.
:)

Cheers, Phil