Re: [PATCH rdma-next 2/4] RDMA/netlink: Advertise IB subnet prefix

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On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:02:51AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 04:34:43PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Subnet prefix (in host byte order)
> > +	 */
> > +	RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_SUBNET_PREFIX,		/* u64 */
>
> I've always hated how random the be / host choices are in our API.

Agree

>
> Since the GUID is in host order I recommend making the subnet_prefix
> in host order too.
>
> At the very least, the comments beside anything not in host order
> should be 'be64' not u64

Those comments represent netlink types. It doesn't have be64.

>
> Jason

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