On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 07:55:04PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcu...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:53:29 +0300 > > > I can't rename the field, neither a can use union. > > Remind me again what is wrong with using an anonymous union?
Anon union would be a preferred but Eric pointed me that even though it might cause problems (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9353365/) | Note that some programs could fail to compile with the added union | anyway. | | Some gcc versions are unable to compile a static init with an union | | struct inet_diag_req_v2 foo = { .pad = 0, sdiag_family = AF_INET, }; | | When I cooked my recent fq commit I simply removed a pad and replaced | it : | | git show fefa569a9d4bc4 -- include
