On Friday 15 June 2007 11:31:37 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > One common problem with 32 bit system call and ioctl emulation > is the different alignment rules between i386 and 64 bit machines. > A number of drivers work around this by marking the compat > structures as 'attribute((packed))', which is not the right > solution because it breaks all the non-x86 architectures that > want to use the same compat code.
Why does it break them? It should just make them a little slower. The network code requires unaligned accesses to work anyways so if your architecture doesn't support them it is already remotely crashable. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
