From da40ecacc1e30901684cd0e1df4856bbe442d501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:20:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] PORTING: Describe usage of ovs_be. --- PORTING | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/PORTING b/PORTING index b83bf64c..09458ee4 100644 --- a/PORTING +++ b/PORTING @@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ useful examples during a port: Miscellaneous Notes ------------------- +Open vSwitch source code uses uint16_t, uint32_t, and uint64_t as +fixed-width types in host byte order, and ovs_be16, ovs_be32, and +ovs_be64 as fixed-width types in network byte order. Each of the +latter is equivalent to the one of the former, but the difference in +name makes the intended use obvious. + ovs-vswitchd is the most sophisticated of ofproto's clients, but ofproto can have other clients as well. ovs-openflowd, in the utilities directory, is much simpler than ovs-vswitchd. It may be -- 2.30.2