netdev - Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 3/4] sctp: add support for generating stream reconf add incoming/outgoing streams request chunk

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Date:   Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:41:12 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:     David.Laight@...LAB.COM, lucien.xin@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        nhorman@...driver.com, vyasevich@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 net-next 3/4] sctp: add support for generating stream
 reconf add incoming/outgoing streams request chunk

From: marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 12:31:17 -0200

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:58:10AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> If this is "so critical" for end to end communication, why the heck
>> do you not see __packed sprinkled all over our definitions for IPV4,
>> IPV6, TCP, UDP, etc. headers?
>> 
>> Do you know why?  Because it's completely unnecessary...
> 
> Btw, virtually all sctp headers are currently tagged with __packed,
> since forever.
 ...
> I'm reviewing them all and will probably post a patch to remove them.

Thanks.