Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762308AbYBRWub (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:50:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753570AbYBRWuX (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:50:23 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:58367 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752376AbYBRWuW (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:50:22 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=oodxRe+YJu4cyiUqFTPFFczca9lADaICcnDOxXK/+YRaZ01HoJ8bkH4X3IcdmN6FIbdgBqODs/SI2tqAetpNui1lvBKPDVCyrZmzKtFPzVsWLbqMJREW/o1RM0Xz0R6BmTY3QV5C1XQhPKcFceYnAhCZSzutANoqZrS5igWFiD8= Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm From: Harvey Harrison To: Michael Buesch Cc: Russell King , Gordon Farquharson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com, stefano.brivio@polimi.it In-Reply-To: <200802182343.12749.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <97a0a9ac0802181403ja79c32v864b093414b2755@mail.gmail.com> <200802182324.45267.mb@bu3sch.de> <20080218223410.GD23181@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <200802182343.12749.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:50:30 -0800 Message-Id: <1203375030.5757.75.camel@brick> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1007 Lines: 33 On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:43 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Monday 18 February 2008 23:34:10 Russell King wrote: > > > > Well, don't expect this driver to work until you fix your broken > > assumptions about alignment requirements. > > Mr King, I'm not an idiot! > > Can you _please_ explain what makes ARM so special here? > Why can't we have an array of this structure on ARM? > > struct ssb_device_id { > __u16 vendor; > __u16 coreid; > __u8 revision; > }; > > I will not apply any patches that I don't understand. > Why doesn't the compiler handle this? What's special? Can you please explain? > I believe this is a good place to start (although I could be totally off-base) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/22/120 Harvey -- 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/