From: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:29:33 +0100
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:58:55PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> skb->protocol is a __be16 which we would be calling htons() against,
>> while this is not wrong per-se as it correctly results in swapping the
>> value on LE hosts, this still upsets sparse. Adopt a similar pattern to
>> what other drivers do and just assign ip_ver to skb->protocol, and then
>> use htons() against the different constants such that the compiler can
>> resolve the values at build time.
>
> Fuck that and fuck other drivers sharing that "pattern". It's not hard
> to remember:
> host-endian to net-endian short is htons
> host-endian to net-endian long is htonl
> net-endian to host-endian short is ntohs
> net-endian to host-endian long is ntohl
>
> That's *it*. No convoluted changes needed, just use the right primitive.
> You are turning trivial one-liners ("conversions between host- and net-endian
> are the same in both directions, so the current code works even though we
> are using the wrong primitive, confusing the readers. Use the right one")
> which are absolutely self-contained and safe into much more massive changes
> that are harder to follow and which are *not* self-contained at all.
>
> Don't do it.
Yes Al, however the pattern choosen here is probably cheaper on little endian:
__beXX val = x;
switch (val) {
case htons(ETH_P_FOO):
...
}
This way only the compiler byte swaps the constants at compile time,
no code is actually generated to do it.
