On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 02:04:47PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-01 at 21:58 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > This seems rather obscure - I mean, it's not obvious to driver authors > > that should be the case. Would it not be better to make this a little > > more obvious somehow? Maybe __aligned(2) against mac_addr? Or > > maybe have a debugging check for it? > > That'd be for David Miller (cc'd). > > I believe he's argued in the past that any alignment check > for mac addresses was unnecessary. > > For all I know it really might not matter because pasemi > can successfully dereference a ushort against an odd char > pointer. > > I just noticed it and thought it'd be better moved.
As can ARM too for years now - either in hardware or via fixup for kernel code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
