On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 01:50:22AM -0400, David Miller wrote: > > Macros that look like function calls and are also lvalues tend to be > troublesome. > > I know what you're trying to achieve, you want a named way to access > this so that the intent and semantics are clear. > > But I'd rather you do something that provides a way by which normal > struct member accesses do the job, and your earlier patches achieved > this.
I can't rename the field, neither a can use union. The only acceptable option I think is introduce inet_diag_v3 structure, which of course will require the mode wide patching. If there no objections I could try to implement it.
