Re: [patch 34/54] Staging: hv: remove STRUCT_PACKED and STRUCT_ALIGNED defines

Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-20T23:46:52Z

On Friday 17 July 2009, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ typedef struct _RING_BUFFER {
> // volatile u32 InterruptMask;
> // Ring data starts here + RingDataStartOffset !!! DO NOT place any fields below this !!!
> u8 Buffer[0];
> -} STRUCT_PACKED RING_BUFFER;
> +} __attribute__((packed)) RING_BUFFER;
>

The data structure is actually packed already, the attribute does not make it better
and could be removed. We also have __packed as a shortcut for __attribute__((packed)).