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From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 12:36:41 +0800
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] [batman] Add padding around allocation
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On Tuesday 02 June 2009 03:35:07 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> So my question to marek: Is it really needed to have "struct
> hna_global_entry" packed in hna.h:57? If not then we should remove it and
> this problem should be gone. And what is with "struct hna_element".

The first 5 bytes of both structs are used as base for the hash index. If the 
compiler changes the order or something similar it might not work.

Regards,
Marek