From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:00:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090304.030044.163418715.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090303192107.GJ1480@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090303.141612.160287111.davem@davemloft.net> <49AE52B1.3020200@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, zbr@ioremap.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, pekkas@netcore.fi, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org To: kaber@trash.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52140 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750868AbZCDLA7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:00:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49AE52B1.3020200@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Patrick McHardy Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:06:41 +0100 > It should also be noted that netlink attributes only provide 4 byte > alignment. Not sure what the current status of handling unaligned > accesses on all architectures is, but something that might have to > be taken into consideration. Indeed, we have hacks in libnl to work around some of these issues :-(