Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757744Ab1CaNvw (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:51:52 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:44373 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757723Ab1CaNvu (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:51:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:51:26 +0100 From: Russell King To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Arend van Spriel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module Message-ID: <20110331135126.GC19540@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1301391619-4499-1-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> <1301391619-4499-2-git-send-email-arend@broadcom.com> <4D91B856.8040302@suse.cz> <201103301453.48607.arnd@arndb.de> <4D948624.3040605@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D948624.3040605@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 665 Lines: 16 On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 03:48:20PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > How it can? Packed only tells the compiler to have one byte alignment > steps. And it should not matter here as all the members are 32-bit long. It also tells the compiler that it may be misaligned, so to avoid alignment faults it will use byte loads/stores. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- 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/