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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:39:44 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org> Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] add compare_ether_addr_unaligned On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:26:31PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:09:22AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > > David Miller found a problem in a wireless driver where I was using > > compare_ether_addr() on potentially unaligned data. Document that > > compare_ether_addr() is not safe for use everywhere, and add an equivalent > > function that works regardless of alignment. > > > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org> > > Patch applied to net-2.6. Thanks. Since it turned out that this function wouldn't be useful in the case that you originally intended it for, I'm going to drop it until such a time when a new need arises. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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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