Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/11] use ether_addr_equal_64bits | From | Johannes Berg <> | Date | Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:25:24 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 20:58 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > Is there any way we could catch (sparse, or some other script?) that > > struct reorganising won't break the condition needed ("within a > > structure that contains at least two more bytes")? > > What kind of reorganizing could happen? Do you mean that the programmer > might do at some time in the future, or something the compiler might do?
I'm just thinking of a programmer, e.g. changing a struct like this:
struct foo { u8 addr[ETH_ALEN]; - u16 dummy; };
for example.
johannes
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