netdev - Re: [BRIDGE] Unaligned access on IA64 when comparing ethernet addresses

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Date:	Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:37:27 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bridge@...ts.osdl.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [BRIDGE] Unaligned access on IA64 when comparing ethernet addresses

David Miller wrote:
> From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>
> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:43:56 +0400
> 
>> [snip]
>>
>>> --- linux-2.6.orig/net/bridge/br_private.h	2007-04-17
>>> 13:26:48.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/net/bridge/br_private.h
>>> 2007-04-17 13:30:29.000000000 -0700 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>>>  {
>>>  	unsigned char	prio[2];
>>>  	unsigned char	addr[6];
>>> -};
>>> +} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
>> Why "8"? Mustn't it be "16"? Address is to be 2-bytes aligned...
> 
> Actually it could be made "2", the aligned() attribute is
> in bytes, not bits.

Indeed :) My bad :( Thank you...

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