On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 2:41 PM, John Lo (loj) <l...@cisco.com> wrote:

> The two APIs affected are the older ones in L2FIB which use “u64 mac”
> instead of “u8 mac[6]” to pass MAC addresses:
>
> ·        L2fib_add_del
>
> ·        L2_fib_table_details
>
>
>
> I believe it is a good change to reduce confusion wrt how 6-byte MAC is
> stored in u64 with big/little endian hosts. The change would also require
> updates to user programs of these APIs, which we believe should be minimal.
>
>
>
> If we don’t get strong objections within a week, we will assume the change
> is acceptable and allow this API change in the master branch. It won’t
> affect 17.10 release.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>

Sure.  +1

jdl
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