Re: [PATCH net-next v2] block/drbd: use nla_put_u64_64bit()

From: David Miller
Date: Tue May 03 2016 - 12:06:03 EST


From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 12:06:44 +0200

> Please just NOT use an additional "field",
> but always use 0 to pad.

You can't, it doesn't work.

We are adding a new field to every netlink protocol family that has this
alignment problem.