netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Allow to monitor multicast cache event via rtnetlink

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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:54:53 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	David.Laight@...LAB.COM
Cc:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/7] Allow to monitor multicast cache event
 via rtnetlink

From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:41:33 -0000

> Probably worth commenting that the 64bit items might only be 32bit aligned.
> Just to stop anyone trying to read/write them with pointer casts.

Rather, let's not create this situation at all.

It's totally inappropriate to have special code to handle every single
time we want to put 64-bit values into netlink messages.

We need a real solution to this issue.
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