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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>,
	ron.rindjunsky@intel.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix alignment issue with compare_ether_addr()
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 18:42:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211992955.21624.41.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080528151651.GA13461@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080528_175821_349548_128405FB)

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> -	u8 src[ETH_ALEN];
> +	u8 src[ETH_ALEN] __attribute__ ((aligned(2)));

> It seems to compile w/o errors on i686, and it seems more clear to me.
> Will that not work?

I think it should be __aligned(2) anyway :)

Other than that, yeah, we definitely want this patch. And the previous
one too, thanks.

johannes

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-28 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-28 14:50 [PATCH] mac80211: fix alignment issue with compare_ether_addr() Senthil Balasubramanian
2008-05-28 15:16 ` John W. Linville
2008-05-28 16:42   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2008-05-28 16:50   ` Senthilkumar Balasubramanian
2008-05-28 17:07     ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-28 17:33       ` Senthilkumar Balasubramanian
2008-05-28 18:09         ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-28 15:34 ` Johannes Berg

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