From: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
stefano.brivio@polimi.it
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:50:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1203375030.5757.75.camel@brick> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802182343.12749.mb@bu3sch.de>
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:43 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 23:34:10 Russell King wrote:
> >
> > Well, don't expect this driver to work until you fix your broken
> > assumptions about alignment requirements.
>
> Mr King, I'm not an idiot!
>
> Can you _please_ explain what makes ARM so special here?
> Why can't we have an array of this structure on ARM?
>
> struct ssb_device_id {
> __u16 vendor;
> __u16 coreid;
> __u8 revision;
> };
>
> I will not apply any patches that I don't understand.
> Why doesn't the compiler handle this? What's special? Can you please explain?
>
I believe this is a good place to start (although I could be totally
off-base)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/22/120
Harvey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 22:03 [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-18 22:08 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:13 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 22:24 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:34 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 22:43 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:50 ` Harvey Harrison [this message]
2008-02-18 22:56 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 22:53 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 23:00 ` Russell King
2008-02-18 23:17 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-18 23:42 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-19 0:01 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-19 4:59 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-19 10:41 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-20 0:44 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-20 14:44 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-20 19:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 4:24 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-22 12:08 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-22 14:07 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 4:34 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-23 5:51 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-23 10:14 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-23 15:58 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-26 14:37 ` Ben Dooks
2008-02-26 16:12 ` Gordon Farquharson
2008-02-19 5:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-22 13:13 ` Matthieu CASTET
2008-02-18 23:04 ` Michael Buesch
2008-02-19 8:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-02-19 10:34 ` Michael Buesch
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