netdev - Re: Seeing new kernel unaligned access messages in linux-next on ia64

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Message-Id: <20100324.203226.150151401.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:32:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tony.luck@...el.com
Cc:	jengelh@...ozas.de, schwab@...ux-m68k.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Seeing new kernel unaligned access messages in linux-next on
 ia64

From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:19:38 -0700

>> No more unaligned messages - but is this an acceptable solution?
> 
> There are a bunch of macros in include/linux/unaligned/*.h to
> handle this sort of thing.

It's totally unnecessary here and it would be overkill to
use those interfaces one at a time on every struct member
when a proper memcpy() fro ma type-pruned void pointer
suffices.
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