Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:42:42 +1100

>  - It's horribly broken in at least two area :
> 
>  DO NOT USE BITFIELDS FOR DATA ON THE WIRE !!!
> 
>  and
> 
>  Where do you handle endianness ? (no need to shout for
>  that one).
> 
> (Or in general, do not use bitfields period ....)

Yes, this is a show stopper, the endianness and
word-size/endian testing should have been done before
submission.
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