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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing
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On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 12:04 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
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> On 02/05/2019 10:42 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > It's declared after a pointer so it is already is 2 byte aligned.
> >
> > A lot of drivers wouldn't work otherwise.
>
> Maybe these drivers are only used on arches where this does not matter.

Possible.

I had only grepped through the sources looking for
declarations using:

$ git grep -B1 '\[ETH_ALEN\];' -- '*.c' | grep -A1 '\*'

It's quite a few files in net/ too btw.

I still think adding __align(<even#>) is unnecessary here unless
it follows something like a bool or a u8.


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