[openib-general] Re: why does the value of the node_guid don't have the machine en dian ess?
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue Jul 26 11:03:48 PDT 2005
Roland Dreier wrote:
> Dotan> I expect the value to have the same endian-ness when
> Dotan> printed with %llx and when read from sysfs.
>
> I don't think this is right. sysfs is showing the GUID as a string.
> On the other hand, I think it makes sense for the query verb to return
> it in network order.
To clarify, node_guid in ib_device_attr is in network order, correct? Do
you know offhand which other fields of that structure are also in network
order? Is it just the two guid fields?
- Sean
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