tipc: simplify endianness handling in topology subscriber

Because of the requirement for total distribution transparency, users
send subscriptions and receive topology events in their own host format.
It is up to the topology server to determine this format and do the
correct conversions to and from its own host format when needed.

Until now, this has been handled in a rather non-transparent way inside
the topology server and subscriber code, leading to unnecessary
complexity when creating subscriptions and issuing events.

We now improve this situation by adding two new macros, tipc_sub_read()
and tipc_evt_write(). Both those functions calculate the need for
conversion internally before performing their respective operations.
Hence, all handling of such conversions become transparent to the rest
of the code.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/tipc/name_table.h b/net/tipc/name_table.h
index f56e7cb3d436..17652602d5e2 100644
--- a/net/tipc/name_table.h
+++ b/net/tipc/name_table.h
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ struct publication *tipc_nametbl_insert_publ(struct net *net, u32 type,
 struct publication *tipc_nametbl_remove_publ(struct net *net, u32 type,
 					     u32 lower, u32 node, u32 ref,
 					     u32 key);
-void tipc_nametbl_subscribe(struct tipc_subscription *s, bool status);
+void tipc_nametbl_subscribe(struct tipc_subscription *s);
 void tipc_nametbl_unsubscribe(struct tipc_subscription *s);
 int tipc_nametbl_init(struct net *net);
 void tipc_nametbl_stop(struct net *net);