[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4] net: introduce IPv4 ihl and version fields

Gregory Etelson getelson at nvidia.com
Tue Oct 12 14:36:13 CEST 2021


Hello,

..snip..

> It was announced (commit f7383e7c7ec1). But
> that's a good point:
> - the removal of the deprecation is missing in the
> patch

I removed deprecation in v5

> - the message notice also talks about union for
> fragment_offset

A union for IPv4 fragmentation fields cannot be implemented.
IPv4 header encodes fragment information into 16 bits field.
3 bits hold flags and remaining 13 bits are for fragment offset.
13 bits bit-field cannot be defined both for big and little endian
systems.


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