Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755182AbXKWA13 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:27:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751708AbXKWA1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:27:21 -0500 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:40562 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbXKWA1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:27:21 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=UH3V5POitVpZF45IfOPYDUH67O5RG9Dkel2o3IWO0z/oaJ7/bx4LIi3KLOOWjPGTNILQXXO9C5881RUOqyOymoQg/nZlWF0L6kq2RjvSoZEv+M5hUJDi+IH4MQh0dF9x8O61VErOWguoIiflqPEjC/Cj0el+IJrxdXGrKtbyxVE= Message-ID: <3aa654a40711221627w4ddf36eel54fdac66f81cac4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:27:19 -0800 From: "Avuton Olrich" To: "Daniel Drake" Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation about unaligned memory access Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, kune@deine-taler.de, johannes@sipsolutions.net In-Reply-To: <20071123001554.12F8B9D4A1F@zog.reactivated.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071123001554.12F8B9D4A1F@zog.reactivated.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 742 Lines: 19 On Nov 22, 2007 4:15 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Before I do so, any comments on the following? > < above case it would insert 2 bytes of padding inbetween field1 and field2. > above case it would insert 2 bytes of padding in between field1 and field2. < moving field3 to sit inbetween field1 and field2 (where the padding is > moving field3 to sit in between field1 and field2 (where the padding is -- avuton -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - 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/