Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:13:33 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Process to push changes to include/linux/types.h |
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On Friday 2010-10-15 10:22, Andi Kleen wrote: >Jan Engelhardt writes: > >> I would be interested in knowing whether you - in whichever subsystems >> you happen to be active - would even need aligned_u64. Right now, >> the only users seem to be PPP and scsi_tgt besides Netfilter. > >Using aligned_u64 is good practice to avoid problems with the >32bit/64bit compat layer. I would recommend it to anyone >adding a new user space interface passing a 64bit value.
Well, new interfaces in networking are using netlink, which has its own unlucky ideas of alignment.
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