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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:39:57 +0100 From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com> To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5 2.6.22-rc6] L2TP: Changes to existing ppp and socket kernel headers for L2TP David Miller wrote: > This is going to cause problems on compat platforms where > __u64 is aligned on an 8-byte boundary on the 64-bit > variant but it is not on the 32-bit cpu variant. > > A way to avoid this is to use the aligned_u64 type from > linux/types.h which ensures 8-byte alignment on all > platforms and thus you won't need to provide s compat > ioctl() handler for your statistics ioctl(). Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of aligned_u64. > I'll make this change for you so we don't have to go > back and forth again just for this. Thanks! -- James Chapman Katalix Systems Ltd http://www.katalix.com Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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