From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
thierry.reding@gmail.com
Cc: hkallweit1@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch, nic_swsd@realtek.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 12:04:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca6ca816-af03-e1f9-739a-a06cc4837b80@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8553086eaec167846992f1cff12aa388cee81767.camel@perches.com>
On 02/05/2019 10:42 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>
> It's declared after a pointer so it is already is 2 byte aligned.
>
> A lot of drivers wouldn't work otherwise.
Maybe these drivers are only used on arches where this does not matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-05 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-04 16:42 [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Thierry Reding
2019-02-04 16:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing Thierry Reding
2019-02-04 16:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2019-02-04 18:44 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-05 3:20 ` David Miller
2019-02-05 18:42 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-05 19:14 ` David Miller
2019-02-05 19:19 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-06 7:25 ` Michal Kubecek
2019-02-05 20:04 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-02-05 20:18 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-05 20:23 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-02-05 20:23 ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-04 19:30 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] r8169: Load MAC address from device tree if present Heiner Kallweit
2019-02-06 2:27 [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing Paul Zimmerman
2019-02-06 2:52 ` Joe Perches
2019-02-06 3:25 ` Paul Zimmerman
2019-02-06 3:49 ` Joe Perches
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