Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 2004 18:29:27 -0500 | | From | Matt Mackall <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] netpoll endian fixes |
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On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:24:43AM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > The big-endians took their revenge in netpoll.c: on i386, > the ip header length / version nibbles need to be the other > way round; and the htonl leaves only zeros in tot_len...
I'm completely baffled as to how length / version nibbles could be swapped. Endianness here should be a matter of _bytes_.
The htons seems reasonable.
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