From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: tushar.n.dave@oracle.com
Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i40e: remove unnecessary __packed
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:47:40 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161119.214740.728792132654733676.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479592438-17078-1-git-send-email-tushar.n.dave@oracle.com>
From: Tushar Dave <tushar.n.dave@oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 13:53:58 -0800
> 'struct i40e_dma_mem' defined with 'packed' directive causing kernel
> unaligned errors on sparc.
I really wish people would get out of the habit of just slapping
the __packed attribute onto structures seemingly by default.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-20 2:47 UTC|newest]
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2016-11-19 21:53 [PATCH] i40e: remove unnecessary __packed Tushar Dave
2016-11-20 2:47 ` David Miller [this message]
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