Re: [PATCH]: fixed typo of reassembly.c

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 15:02:22 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > It is textual fix only, do you realize this?
> > Both ntohs() and htons() perform the same transformation
> > on a 16-bit data item.  It really does not matter which
> > one you actually use, in practice.
> 
> It might make a difference in future if the sparse people decide to
> annotate its arguments/return values.

That's true.  Al Viro has done this on the filesystems
and "cpu_to_{be,le}{16,32,64}()" et al. interfaces.

I'm sure he'll hit the networking before long.