Re: [PATCH] netpoll endian fixes

[Matt Mackall]

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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