Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:26:28 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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Subject: Re: drivers/block/ub.c
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:42:21 +0200
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> wrote:

> OK, then it shouldn't be used in this case. However, shouldn't we have
> an attribute like __nopadding__ which does exactly that?

It would have the same effect.  CPU structure layout rules don't pack
(or using other words, add padding) exactly in cases where it is
needed to obtain the necessary alignment.
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