Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761958AbXETACo (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 20:02:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757078AbXETACh (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 20:02:37 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:33781 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755610AbXETACh (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 20:02:37 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <464F900A.10900@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 02:02:18 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070408 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Petr Vandrovec , dan@dennedy.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code References: <20070507021447.GA22197@vana.vc.cvut.cz> <200705200155.26825.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <200705200155.26825.arnd@arndb.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 21 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote: >> +struct raw1394_cycle_timer32 { >> + __u32 cycle_timer; >> + __u64 local_time; >> +} __attribute__((packed)); > > Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but > not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in > 32 bit mode. Is this conversion just unnecessary or actually harmful on ppc64 and others? -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/