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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit()
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 12:05:56 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:06:44 +0200

> Please just NOT use an additional "field",
> but always use 0 to pad.

You can't, it doesn't work.

We are adding a new field to every netlink protocol family that has this
alignment problem.