Re: [PATCH 1/4] sctp: Fix crc32c calculations on big-endian arhes.

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:52:44AM -0500, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
>
> I'll give it some thought.  It would clean up all the __force
> casts, but it will be a little misleading to define a packet
> checksum as little endian. :)

Not at all! Just because something is on the network doesn't
mean that it's big-endian.  In this case, we're using the little-
endian CRC32C implementation for the checksum so it makes perfect
sense for it to be marked as __le32.

Network-order just has to be fixed in endian, i.e., either big
or small, you just need to stick with the one you choose regardless
of the endianness of the host.

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