Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752879AbcD0BPI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:15:08 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f174.google.com ([209.85.192.174]:33591 "EHLO mail-pf0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752708AbcD0BPD (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Apr 2016 21:15:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 9/9] taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit To: Nicolas Dichtel , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1461339084-3849-1-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> <1461339084-3849-10-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wpan@vger.kernel.org, aar@pengutronix.de, pablo@netfilter.org, kaber@trash.net, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, pshelar@nicira.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvswitch.org, steffen.klassert@secunet.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au From: Balbir Singh Message-ID: <57201287.80002@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:14:47 +1000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1461339084-3849-10-git-send-email-nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 477 Lines: 15 On 23/04/16 01:31, Nicolas Dichtel wrote: > Goal of this patch is to use the new libnl API to align netlink attribute > when needed. > The layout of the netlink message will be a bit different after the patch, > because the padattr (TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS) will be inside the nested > attribute instead of before it. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel The layout will change/break user space -- I've not tested the patch though.. Balbir Singh.