Re: Linux 2.6.35/TIPC 2.0 ABI breaking changes

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 04:16:32 EST


From: Leandro Lucarella <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:16:57 -0300

>
> The problem is not between the tipc stacks in different hosts, is
> between the tipc stack and the applications using it (well, maybe
> there is a problem somewhere else too).
>
> This was a deliberate API change, not a subtle bug...

Neil et al., if these packets live only between the kernel stack
and the userspace API layer, we should not be byte-swapping this
stuff and we need to fix this fast.

Thanks.
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