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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:42:42 +1100

> - It's horribly broken in at least two area :
>
> DO NOT USE BITFIELDS FOR DATA ON THE WIRE !!!
>
> and
>
> Where do you handle endianness ? (no need to shout for
> that one).
>
> (Or in general, do not use bitfields period ....)

Yes, this is a show stopper, the endianness and
word-size/endian testing should have been done before
submission.
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