Re: [patch 01/10] Add new fields for System z10 to /proc/sysinfo

Martin Schwidefsky
2008-03-13T10:03:18Z

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:57 -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> > Index: quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/sysinfo.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- quilt-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/sysinfo.c
> > +++ quilt-2.6/drivers/s390/sysinfo.c
> > @@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ struct sysinfo_1_1_1 {
> > char sequence[16];
> > char plant[4];
> > char model[16];
> > + char model_perm_cap[16];
> > + char model_temp_cap[16];
> > + char model_cap_rating[4];
> > + char model_perm_cap_rating[4];
> > + char model_temp_cap_rating[4];
> > };
>
> I'd try to be safer, and make the struct __attribute__((packed))...

Hmm, that would be true for all sysinfo typedefs. The automatic
alignment does the right thing though. Don't know if its worth the
effort - at least until you get bitten for the first time ;-)

--
blue skies,
Martin.

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