From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] etherdevice: Use ether_addr_copy to copy an Ethernet address Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:39:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20140115.153951.743060257410154565.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1389741527.24849.68.camel@joe-AO722> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org To: joe@perches.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1389741527.24849.68.camel@joe-AO722> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Joe Perches Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:18:47 -0800 > Some systems can use the normally known u16 alignment of > Ethernet addresses to save some code/text bytes and cycles. > > This does not change currently emitted code on x86 by gcc 4.8. > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches This looks fine, in fact I'll apply it.