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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org,
	ohering@suse.com, zbr@ioremap.net,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] drivers: hv: Cleanup the kvp related state in hyperv.h
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:29:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202232936.GA9614@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1327708562-26964-3-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:55:59PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Now cleanup the hyperv.h with regards to KVP definitions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
>  include/linux/hyperv.h |   32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
> index 7332b3f..802ece8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
> @@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ struct hv_ku_msg {
>  
>  
>  
> -#ifdef __KERNEL__
>  
>  /*
>   * Registry value types.
> @@ -162,29 +161,36 @@ enum hv_kvp_exchg_pool {
>  	KVP_POOL_COUNT /* Number of pools, must be last. */
>  };
>  
> +#ifndef __packed
> +#define __packed __attribute__((packed))
> +#endif

Why do this?

If you are so worried about this in userspace, then just change the
values below to __attribute__((packed)), like all of the other public .h
files do.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-02 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27 23:55 [PATCH 0000/0006] drivers: hv K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-27 23:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] drivers: hv: kvp: Add/cleanup connector defines K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-27 23:55   ` [PATCH 2/6] drivers: hv: kvp: Move the contents of hv_kvp.h to hyperv.h K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-27 23:55   ` [PATCH 3/6] drivers: hv: Cleanup the kvp related state in hyperv.h K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-02-02 23:29     ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-02-02 23:41       ` KY Srinivasan
2012-02-02 23:48         ` Greg KH
2012-02-03  2:39           ` Joe Perches
2012-01-27 23:56   ` [PATCH 4/6] tools: hv: Use hyperv.h to get the KVP definitions K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-27 23:56   ` [PATCH 5/6] drivers: hv: kvp: Cleanup the kernel/user protocol K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-01-27 23:56   ` [PATCH 6/6] drivers: hv: Increase the number of VCPUs supported in the guest K. Y. Srinivasan
2012-02-02 23:31 ` [PATCH 0000/0006] drivers: hv Greg KH

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