On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 14:34 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 09/24/2011 12:38 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 19:08 -0700, Franky Lin wrote:
> >> struct d11rxhdr {
> >> u16 RxFrameSize;
> >> u16 PAD;
> >> + union {
> >> + struct d11rxhdr_le rxh_le;
> >> + struct d11rxhdr rxh_cpu;
> >> + };
> > This seems a little strange. Why would it be both in LE and CPU byte
> > order?
>
> Indeed. When we receive it from the device it is in LE and we convert it
> to CPU order for further processing using rxh_cpu.
That seems a confusing and error-prone -- you'll have to remember
whether you're before or after conversion. Would it be possible to have
two versions of the outer structure and change the pointer type at that
point?
johannes
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