From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:34:58 +0100
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On Tuesday 19 February 2008 09:37:05 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > Still I can't see why this structure will cause alignment issues, as the
> > compiler will pad it up to the right boundary automagically, as you said
> > above. Why doesn't the ARM compiler do this?
> 
> The ARM compiler handles it correctly.
> 
> But the ugly hacks to get useful information about the module device
> table using the _host_ compiler fail.

Ok, fine. So I'm not going to apply this patch. We need
to fix the sanity check instead.

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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