From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in driver headers Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 07:16:42 -0800 Message-ID: <20101202151642.GA15449@suse.de> References: <1290801456.18750.164.camel@neuromancer> <1290804616.3051.52.camel@localhost> <20101130174052.GA19977@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Greg KH , Ben Hutchings , erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net, Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:04:35PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Greg KH 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. > > > > I agree, that's the "normal" Linux way of doing things. > > > > Other than that, this patch set looks good to me. Jiri, if the packed > > change is made, do you want me to take these through my tree, or do you > > want to take them through yours? Whatever is easier for you is fine > > with me. > > Hi Greg, > > as this is part of larger roccat patchset, I will be processing it through > my tree once completely reviewed. Great, feel free to add my: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman to the driver core changes. thanks, greg k-h