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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] drivers: hv: Cleanup the kvp related state in
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:39:38 -0800
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On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 15:48 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:41:29PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > > > +#define __packed __attribute__((packed))
[]
> > When I ran the checkpatch script against these patches I got a warning that the
> > preferred directive was to use "__packed".
> Well, checkpatch is stupid sometimes.

True.

I suppose checkpatch warning could be improved to
say that it's preferred for "kernel only" files
and should be ignored for public/user cases.