From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
devel@linuxdriverproject.org, gregkh@suse.de,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:14:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201104011114.37940.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D94A781.6060904@suse.cz>
On Thursday 31 March 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> I don't see why it couldn't like without the packed attribute. (The
> manual says packed attribute for a struct is equivalent to specifying
> packed to each member of that struct. It doesn't say anything about the
> structure alignment itself.)
To give some more background, any variable that is marked packed is
assumed to be potentially unaligned (byte aligned). If a struct
contains only members with byte alignment, it too is byte aligned.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-01 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-29 9:40 [PATCH 0/1] new module for amba axi on-chip interconnect Arend van Spriel
2011-03-29 9:40 ` [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module Arend van Spriel
2011-03-29 10:45 ` Jiri Slaby
2011-03-30 12:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-31 13:48 ` Jiri Slaby
2011-03-31 13:51 ` Russell King
2011-03-31 14:09 ` Jiri Slaby
2011-03-31 14:14 ` Russell King
2011-03-31 16:10 ` Jiri Slaby
2011-04-01 9:14 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-03-29 13:14 ` [PATCH 0/1] new module for amba axi on-chip interconnect Greg KH
2011-03-29 18:19 ` Russell King
2011-03-30 13:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 13:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 17:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-30 17:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-30 18:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 18:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-30 19:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-03-30 19:08 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-04-01 15:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-04-01 15:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-03-29 18:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-29 18:40 ` Russell King
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