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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 20:04:26 -0700
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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:16:41 +0200
Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> wrote:

> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 16:30, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > The 1.786.1.54 changeset (i.e. the initial ipt_physdev.c one 8) created
> 
> Does this fix it?

You can't use this fix.  This header and structure are used by
userspace and "unsigned long" can be a different size in the
kernel than it is in user space.

Please, just remove the super-silly memcmp() optimization in
the ipt_physdev.c code.