netdev - eBPF - little-endian load instructions?

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:38:34 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Subject: eBPF - little-endian load instructions?

Hi,

Looking at (e)BPF for wifi, I notice that everything is big endian in
loads from the frame - and wifi is all little endian.

Obviously, this can be worked around by doing byte-loads and swapping
in the program, but it'll be more efficient to not do that.

Do you think it's possible to add little-endian load instructions? Or
perhaps there should be a conversion function from BE to LE?

Thanks,
johannes