Message-ID: <1393279377.11020.66.camel@joe-AO722>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning for new __packed additions
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:02:57 -0800
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On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:52 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> I've been lead to
> believe that most cases now people should be using regmap instead, which
> just leaves the case of having to match on-disk formats or similar cases
> I believe as the things that must stay __packed.

__packed is also necessary for on-wire networking protocols.


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