netdev - [PATCH] xtables: make XT_ALIGN() usable in exported headers

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Message-ID: <n2ib6fcc0a1004010502z8c25a68cg11c5aa2f90ad4826@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:02:14 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xtables: make XT_ALIGN() usable in exported headers

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> wrote:
> I can't think of anything but to restore the XT_ALIGN macro.
> We could add a XT_ALIGN definition to xtables.h, but that might
> still leave problems for other users.
>
> Alexey, do you have any better suggestions?

I like __KERNEL_ALIGN trick.

Sorry for attachment, my patch sending facility is broke.
Tested on iptables compilation.

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