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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 01/33] staging: rtl8192e: Declare ethernet addresses as __aligned(2)
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On Tue, 2015-05-12 at 21:44 +0200, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> On 10.05.2015 00:29, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 23:18 +0200, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> >> Add __aligned(2) into ethernet addresses allocated on stack or in non-packed
> >> structures. Use ETH_ALEN as array length in places where it was hardcoded to 6.
> > []
> >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/r8192E_dev.c
> > []
> >> @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void rtl8192_read_eeprom_info(struct net_device *dev)
> >> u8 ICVer8192, ICVer8256;
> >> u16 i, usValue, IC_Version;
> >> u16 EEPROMId;
> >> - u8 bMac_Tmp_Addr[6] = {0x00, 0xe0, 0x4c, 0x00, 0x00, 0x01};
> >> + u8 bMac_Tmp_Addr[ETH_ALEN] __aligned(2) = {0x00, 0xe0, 0x4c,
> >> + 0x00, 0x00, 0x01};
> >
> > While this is safe, as this follows a u16, it's unnecessary.
> >
> > Also, ideally, this would be
> > u8 foo[ETH_ALEN] = {
> > 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
> > };
> > or just left on a single line.
>
> I put __aligned to most places to show authors intention and to prevent someone from breaking it by
> (for example) removing u16 above due some refactoring.
>
> If you insist - I will remove it.

I'm not very insistent.




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