From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Allow to monitor multicast cache event via rtnetlink Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:54:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20121205.125453.1457654258131828976.davem@davemloft.net> References: <50BE56D3.2030704@6wind.com> <50BF29DA.7020903@6wind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:35429 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751599Ab2LERyy (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2012 12:54:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "David Laight" Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:41:33 -0000 > Probably worth commenting that the 64bit items might only be 32bit aligned. > Just to stop anyone trying to read/write them with pointer casts. Rather, let's not create this situation at all. It's totally inappropriate to have special code to handle every single time we want to put 64-bit values into netlink messages. We need a real solution to this issue.