netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: FIB tracepoints

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Message-Id: <20150827.220538.2154843333132928646.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 27 Aug 2015 22:05:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: FIB tracepoints

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:59:32 -0700

> +		__array(	__u8,	src,	4	)
> +		__array(	__u8,	dst,	4	)
 ...
> +		__array(	__u8,	src,	4	)

Maybe there is something I don't understand about tracing, but why not
use __u32?  If endianness types are the issue, just force cast it as
needed.

Using a memcpy() on a 4-byte array is kinda excessive.
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