Re: Linux 2.6.35/TIPC 2.0 ABI breaking changes

From: Leandro Lucarella
Date: Wed Oct 20 2010 - 14:45:34 EST


Jon Maloy, el 20 de octubre a las 14:37 me escribiste:
> > I think if they really go through the wire, it should be in
> > NBO, and if tipc_subscr and tipc_event are used only
> > internally, we can still fix the userspace messages when
> > sending them through the wire.
>
> There are plenty of protocols around not using NBO over the wire.
> This is not a must.

Of course, but is harder to sniff and debug if you haven't a fixed BO,
so, if it's easy to adjust transparently to userspace, I think it could
worth the trouble.

But my main concern is backwards compatibility, everything else is
secondary :)

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