Re: [PATCH] RDMA: Do not used __packed in uapi headers

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg-uk2M96/98Pc@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 04:45:51PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> __packed is not available in linux/types.h, so we cannot use it in
> the uapi headers.
> 
> The construction struct ABC {} __packed; may still compile even if
> __packed is not defined, however it simply creates a variable called
> __packed, and doesn't set the alignment.
> 
> All these uses of packed are on structs that already have aligned
> members.
> 
> While use in hfi may indicate the struct itself is unaligned,
> the use in ocrdma is on a UHW struct which should never be unaligned,
> so just delete it there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
>  include/uapi/rdma/hfi/hfi1_user.h | 6 +++---
>  include/uapi/rdma/ocrdma-abi.h    | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

applied to -next

Jason
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