RE: [PATCH] tipc: fix issue that tipc_dest neglects of big-endian

[Jon Maloy]

Hi David, 
Please hold this one for now. 

///jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, 20 August, 2018 22:21
> To: Haiqing.Bai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; zhenbo.gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: fix issue that tipc_dest neglects of big-endian
> 
> From: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 18:26:01 +0800
> 
> > The tipc multicast demo in tipcutils fails to work on big-endian hardware.
> > The tipc multicast server can not receive the packets sent by the multicast
> > client for that the dest port is always zero after tipc_dest_pop, then it
> > is found that the struct tipc_dest fails to take big/little endian into
> > account.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Haiqing Bai <Haiqing.Bai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Zhenbo Gao <zhenbo.gao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Jon and Ying, please review.
> 
> thank you.