Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] r8169: Avoid pointer aliasing

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Feb 05 2019 - 15:04:20 EST




On 02/05/2019 10:42 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
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> It's declared after a pointer so it is already is 2 byte aligned.
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> A lot of drivers wouldn't work otherwise.

Maybe these drivers are only used on arches where this does not matter.