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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.16-rc6] Promise SuperTrak driver
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Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>>+struct st_sgitem {
>>>>+struct st_sgtable {
>>>>+struct handshake_frame {
>>>>+struct req_msg {
>>>>+struct status_msg {
>>>
>>>Has this all been tested on big-endian hardware?
>>>
>>
>>No. It was only tested on i386 and x86-64 machines.
> 
> 
> you'll want those to be __attribute__((packed)) as well btw

I thought that was unnecessary if the struct members are ordered such 
that compiler would not add padding?

	Jeff