RE: Linux 2.6.35/TIPC 2.0 ABI breaking changes

[Jon Maloy]

<...>
> > 
> > Remember, permitting both is a superset of the current one 
> (NBO only) 
> > so it is fully backwards compatible. We break absolutly nothing by 
> > permitting this.
> > 
> Thats effectively reverting both our patches though, isn't it 
> (not that I'm disagreeing with it, just looking for 
> clarification).  If we revert my patch and reintroduce the 
> htohl mechanism which tracks endianess, we might as well 
> revert the TIPC_SUB_SERVICE flag as well, yeah?

Absolutely. I think it was a mistake to change that value.
But I don't think we need to reintroduce the htohl(). That
was just one way of doing it. If I understood your suggestion
from yesterday correctly you converted the whole message within
one if()clause, without any htohl(). I have have no problem with 
that approach.

///jon

> 
> Neil
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > [1] http://tipc.sourceforge.net/doc/draft-spec-tipc-06.html
> > > [2] 
> http://tipc.sourceforge.net/doc/draft-spec-tipc-06.html#anchor92
> > > 
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