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From: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	"Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>,
	"Stephane Chatty" <chatty@enac.fr>,
	"Don Prince" <dhprince-devel@yahoo.co.uk>,
	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@mail.ru>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in koneplus driver
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:52:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289069566.5166.3.camel@neuromancer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1011051400250.15851@pobox.suse.cz>

Using pack pragma to prevent padding bytes in binary data structures
used for hardware communication. Explanation of these pragmas was requested.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/hid/hid-roccat-koneplus.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-roccat-koneplus.h b/drivers/hid/hid-roccat-koneplus.h
index bf750fa..c25a799 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-roccat-koneplus.h
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-roccat-koneplus.h
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
+/*
+ * Binary data structures for communication with hardware must have no padding.
+ */
 #pragma pack(push)
 #pragma pack(1)
 
-- 
1.7.2.3




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1287943025.2623.16.camel@neuromancer>
2010-11-04 18:25 ` [PATCH] HID: roccat: Add support for Roccat Kone[+] Jiri Kosina
2010-11-05 17:42   ` Stefan Achatz
2010-11-05 18:01     ` Jiri Kosina
2010-11-06 18:51       ` [PATCH 1/3] HID: roccat: Reducing number of functions in kone and pyra drivers Stefan Achatz
2010-11-06 18:52       ` Stefan Achatz [this message]
2010-11-06 18:53       ` [PATCH 3/3] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in kone and pyra driver Stefan Achatz
2010-11-12 19:16       ` [PATCH] HID: roccat: Add support for Roccat Kone[+] Stefan Achatz
2010-11-05 17:53   ` [PATCH] HID: roccat: Using bin-attribute->private to reduce code duplication Stefan Achatz
2010-11-11  9:00 ` [PATCH] HID: roccat: Add support for Roccat Kone[+] Dmitry Torokhov

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