> > > > I'm just thinking of a programmer, e.g. changing a struct like this: > > > > > > > > struct foo { > > > > u8 addr[ETH_ALEN]; > > > > - u16 dummy; > > > > }; > > I don't know of a way to catch that. > Anyone else? Well, one could have a semantic patch that checks for that. But the problem is that it is very slow, and it only covers the cases that I can transform automatically, which currently means no pointers, only explicit arrays. On the other hand, I am finding the structure definition, so I can easily update the structure definition with an appropriate comment. struct foo { u8 addr[ETH_ALEN]; /* must be followed by two bytes in the structure */ u16 dummy; }; Unfortunately it is kind of verbose. Could there be an attribute? That could even easily be checked. julia -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html