Subject: Re: [BRIDGE] Unaligned access on IA64 when comparing ethernet addresses

From: Pavel Emelianov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:43:56 +0400

[snip]

> --- linux-2.6.orig/net/bridge/br_private.h	2007-04-17
> 13:26:48.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6/net/bridge/br_private.h
> 2007-04-17 13:30:29.000000000 -0700 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
>  {
>  	unsigned char	prio[2];
>  	unsigned char	addr[6];
> -};
> +} __attribute__((aligned(8)));

Why "8"? Mustn't it be "16"? Address is to be 2-bytes aligned...

>  struct mac_addr
>  {
> -
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