Re: Patches fixing unaligned access in the networking code

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

gert%greenie.muc.de@localhost (Gert Doering) writes:

>So if this is for accessing *any* TCP option (not just the first), you 
>can not assume alignment.

True, but that's just a "fast path" check that handles the simple case
with exactly one option which is the timestamp option, we even assert
alignment (with DIAGNOSTIC).

The generic option handling is in a separate function.

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