Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266098AbUFJBpe (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:45:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266097AbUFJBpe (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:45:34 -0400 Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.63.102]:26572 "EHLO pimout3-ext.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266094AbUFJBpd (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2004 21:45:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:45:19 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alex Williamson , clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unaligned accesses in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c:184 Message-ID: <20040610014519.GA3158@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <1086805676.4288.16.camel@tdi> <20040609130001.37a88da1.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040609130001.37a88da1.davem@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 580 Lines: 17 On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 01:00:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > How can you legitimately change this structure? It's an exported > userland interface, if you change it all the applications will stop > working. Why not split the structure for user-space and kernel-space version and cp/frob at/near the syscall boundary? --cw - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/