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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:04:49 +0200
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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] batman-adv: Force packed placment of
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On Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:10:38 AM Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Every data structure which is used to send data over the wire must be
> fixed in layout to prevent incompatibility between different
> architectures. Those incompatibilities could be generated by extra bytes
> between members and at the end of the structure.
> 
> tt_changes_fill_buffer and tt_len use that structure to copy the correct
> amount of data from an internal structure to the actual packet. We must
> ensure that this packet buffer only has data which can be interpreted by
> any architecture

Applied in revision 92f4aaa.

Thanks,
Marek