On 11/12/2020 7:20 AM, René Scharfe wrote: > Add a helper function for hashing and writing 64-bit integers in network > byte order. It returns the number of written bytes. This simplifies > callers that keep track of the file offset, even though this number is a > constant. > > Suggested-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Original-patch-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> These patches are absolutely correct, and I'm glad to see them show up in a very clear presentation. I had to go look to see why these were not already present, with [1] being the last instance of these showing up on-list. They did not get into the new version after a significant refactor [2]. Thanks, -Stolee [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200904202226.GA21837@nand.local/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1599664389.git.me@xxxxxxxxxxxx/