[CI] Re: dropping XDR from ICS param attributes

[John B. <joh...@hp...>]

Aneesh Kumar wrote:
> On 5/11/06, Aneesh Kumar <ane...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi John and Brian,
>>
>> What is the specific requirment of using XDR within ICS. ? I see
>> structures like pt_regs being encoded using ics directly. As per our
>> last discussion most of these structures are marked OOL. So with XDR
>> we encode them with XDR routines and out then as OOL data. But then if
>> all the nodes involved in clustering are of same endian do we need to
>> encode them using XDR routines ?
>>
> 
> After looking at the code again i guess i understand what is
> happening. For structures carrying pointers to another data type we
> need the XDR param type.

You don't need it. XDR is just a convenient way of generating the glue 
for a complex structure. You can always write the marshaling routines by 
hand and drop the XDR.

> 
> I have dropped from the latest ICS code the openssirpcgen. I am right
> now looking at NFS and understanding how to do the work the same way
> they are doing.
> 
> 
> -aneesh
>