netdev - Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol

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Date:	Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:00:44 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, zbr@...emap.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, pekkas@...core.fi, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/5] Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor
 implementation & Netlink protocol

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:06:41 +0100

> It should also be noted that netlink attributes only provide 4 byte
> alignment. Not sure what the current status of handling unaligned
> accesses on all architectures is, but something that might have to
> be taken into consideration.

Indeed, we have hacks in libnl to work around some of these
issues :-(
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