From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in driver headers
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:50:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290804616.3051.52.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290801456.18750.164.camel@neuromancer>
On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 20:57 +0100, Stefan Achatz wrote:
> Using pack pragma to prevent padding bytes in binary data structures
> used for hardware communication. Explanation of these pragmas was requested.
[...]
It would be clearer to use the '__packed' macro after each structure
definition instead of using this awful Microsoft extension.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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next parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-26 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1290801456.18750.164.camel@neuromancer>
2010-11-26 20:50 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-11-30 17:40 ` [PATCH 3/5] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in driver headers Greg KH
2010-12-02 15:04 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-12-02 15:16 ` Greg KH
2010-11-26 19:57 Stefan Achatz
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