Purpose of using __be16 inside a data structure?

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:54:41PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:25 AM, 陳國成 <gcchen.org at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Please tell me the difference between using unsigned short and __be16 to
> > declear a variable in a data structure.
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> accomplishes this goal.  From the name, I expect this to be a 16-bit type.
> It may have other attributes, such as a specific endianness (unusual except

Yes, it's for 16-bit big-endian data.

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Jonathan Neuschäfer