[openib-general] Re: why does the value of the node_guid don' t have the machine en dian ess?

[Dotan Barak]

I expect to get this values with the endianess of the host that i'm working
on, and if i will print the node_guid as a number it will be the same as the
sys_fs value.

I don't see any reason for the driver to return this value in the endianess
of the network, i think that it is better that the driver will return the
value of this attribute in the host order, instead of every application that
query for this attribute will change the order of it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rolandd at cisco.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:07 PM
> To: Sean Hefty
> Cc: Dotan Barak; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: why does the value of the node_guid
> don't have the machine en dian ess?
> 
> 
>     Sean> To clarify, node_guid in ib_device_attr is in network order,
>     Sean> correct?  Do you know offhand which other fields of that
>     Sean> structure are also in network order?  Is it just the two
>     Sean> guid fields?
> 
> I'm not positive but I believe that as you say, node_guid and
> sys_image_guid are the only two fields returned in network order.
> 
>  - R.
> 
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