On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 10:43:59AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 at 10:30, Aditya Garg <gargadity...@live.com> wrote: > > On 22-04-2025 01:37 pm, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 at 08:48, Aditya Garg <gargadity...@live.com> wrote:
... > > Originally, it was %p4cr (reverse-endian), but on the request of the > > maintainers, it was changed to %p4cn. > > Ah, I found it[1]: > > | so, it needs more information that this mimics htonl() / ntohl() for > networking. > > IMHO this does not mimic htonl(), as htonl() is a no-op on big-endian. > while %p4ch and %p4cl yield different results on big-endian. > > > So here network means reverse of host, not strictly big-endian. > > Please don't call it "network byte order" if that does not have the same > meaning as in the network subsystem. > > Personally, I like "%p4r" (reverse) more... > (and "%p4ch" might mean human-readable ;-) It will confuse the reader. h/r is not very established pair. If you really wont see h/n, better to drop them completely for now then. Because I'm against h/r pair. > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/z8b6dwcrbv-8d...@smile.fi.intel.com -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
