linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing

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Message-ID: <ca6ca816-af03-e1f9-739a-a06cc4837b80@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Feb 2019 12:04:15 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        thierry.reding@...il.com
Cc:     hkallweit1@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing



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.