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<TITLE>RE: why does the value of the node_guid don't have the machine endian ess?</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> -----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> From: Roland Dreier [<A HREF="mailto:rolandd@cisco.com">mailto:rolandd@cisco.com</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Subject: Re: why does the value of the node_guid don't have the machine endianess? </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Dotan> why do i need to change the endianess of node_guid when i</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Dotan> use it from query_hca?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Which endianess do you want to get the node_guid in?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I expect the value to have the same endian-ness when printed with %llx and </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>when read from sysfs.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>swlab140:/home/dotanb/infiniband/newvstat/child>grep XXX vstat.c</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>printf("XXXXXXX %llx\n", device_attr.node_guid);</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>swlab140:/home/dotanb/infiniband/newvstat/child>./vstat | grep XXX</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>XXXXXXX 4018000002c90200</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>swlab140:/home/dotanb/infiniband/newvstat/child>cat /sys/class/infiniband/mthca0/node_guid</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>0002:c902:0000:1840 </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Why is that?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dotan.</FONT>
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