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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: need for packed attribute
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:38:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106183846.GF16093@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601061915.43961.oliver@neukum.org>

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:15:43PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there any architecture for which packed is required in structures like this:
> 
> /* All standard descriptors have these 2 fields at the beginning */
> struct usb_descriptor_header {
> 	__u8  bLength;
> 	__u8  bDescriptorType;
> };

sizeof(struct usb_descriptor_header) will be 4 on ARM.  If this
concerns you, you need to pack the structure thusly:

struct usb_descriptor_header {
	__u8  bLength;
	__u8  bDescriptorType;
} __attribute__((packed));
	

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06 18:15 need for packed attribute Oliver Neukum
2006-01-06 18:38 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-01-12 18:32   ` Benjamin LaHaise
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-12 12:27 Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-12 13:47 ` Russell King
2006-01-12 13:53   ` Russell King
2006-01-12 16:30   ` Mikael Pettersson
2006-01-12 16:46     ` Russell King
2006-01-12 17:20 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-01-12 17:26   ` Russell King
2006-01-12 17:36     ` Pete Zaitcev

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