On Monday 2025-02-24 07:25, Vimal Agrawal wrote: > >But we don't send everything from kernel to userspace in network byte >order. Even on netlink I see some fields are sent in host byte order. Historical oversight? I couldn't tell. It certainly makes it harder to send netlink packets to a different host (not that such is done often in the first place, but you never know). Changing it is not easy either because now everybody expects that field to be wrong.