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Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 15:51:36 +0200
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: [patch] fat/msdos/vfat crud removal
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Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> The new struct:
> 
> /* Note the end: __attribute__ ((packed)) */
> struct fat_boot_sector {
>         char    ignored[3];     /* Boot strap short or near jump */
>         __u64   system_id;      /* Name - can be used to special case
>                                    partition manager volumes */
....
>         __u16   info_sector;    /* filesystem info sector */
>         __u16   backup_boot;    /* backup boot sector */
>         __u16   reserved2[6];   /* Unused */
> } __attribute__ ((packed)) ;


And don't use __uXX but just uXX for bit field integer types in
sturctures, which are supposed to be only used by the kernel.


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