On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:07:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 01:09:32 +0400
>
> > All users pass 32-bit values as addresses and internally they're compared 
> > with
> > 32-bit entities. So, change "laddr" and "raddr" types to __be32.

> Applied.
>
> Doesn't this mean that, at least eventually, we should change
> the address members of inet_sock to __be32 as well?

I think, yes. Al Viro is sitting on terabytes of endian annotations in
networking code. See net-endian.b* branches at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird.git
I don't know if he considers them ready.

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