Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 03:22:02 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>, Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: What exactly is __ALIGN_STR in pnpbios/bioscalls.c for?
Message-ID: <20040110022202.GM25089@fs.tum.de>
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Hi,

include/linux/linkage.h in kernel 2.6 includes #define's for __ALIGN and 
__ALIGN_STR. In include/asm-i386/linkage.h, their values are changed 
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16.

It isn't obvious what exacly CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 is for (I've heard 
more than one opinion), and since the __ALIGN_STR usage in 
drivers/pnp/pnpbios/bioscalls.c is the only non-m68k usage of one of 
these two #define's I wonder whether you might be able to enlighten me 
what CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16 exactly is for?

TIA
Adrian

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