netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: copy_rtnl_link

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Message-Id: <20100823.204455.22027860.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:44:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	joe@...ches.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: copy_rtnl_link_stats64()
 simplification

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:14:52 +0100

> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 10:47 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 19:14 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> > No need to use a temporary struct rtnl_link_stats64 variable,
>> > just copy the source to skb buffer.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
>> 
>> Maybe it's better to use the same argument style as copy_rtnl_link_stats
> [...]
> 
> I believe the destination pointer is typed as void * because it may not
> be naturally aligned for u64.

Exactly right.
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