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On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 13:40 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The return from myid() isn't aligned correctly for ether_addr_copy().

Hey Dan.

Actual evidence showing ether_addr_copy conversions
may not always be wise.

How did you find them?

Is there a new alignment capability in smatch?