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[146.241.228.243]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c6-20020aa7c746000000b00537f5e85ea0sm7326021eds.13.2023.10.10.02.28.55 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39546eb7836e577b53a3b403a2bb20ec07010f25.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] octeon_ep: pack hardware structures From: Paolo Abeni To: Shinas Rasheed , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hgani@marvell.com Cc: egallen@redhat.com, mschmidt@redhat.com, Veerasenareddy Burru , Sathesh Edara , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:28:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20231006120225.2259533-1-srasheed@marvell.com> References: <20231006120225.2259533-1-srasheed@marvell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.46.4 (3.46.4-1.fc37) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.7 required=5.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_SBL_CSS,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on pete.vger.email Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.4 (pete.vger.email [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:29:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Level: ** On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 05:02 -0700, Shinas Rasheed wrote: > Add packed attribute to hardware structures. Could you please elaborate a bit more why this is needed? Is this a bugfix? Or something needed by later changes? Please update the changelog accordingly Thanks! Paolo