Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE04CC282C3 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982982184C for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726228AbfAXSTt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:19:49 -0500 Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([144.76.43.62]:36818 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725913AbfAXSTt (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:19:49 -0500 Received: by sipsolutions.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92-RC4) (envelope-from ) id 1gmjbN-0005el-07; Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:19:45 +0100 Message-ID: <3b395c3564bf0c693090b066ec4c598c8d0bdb34.camel@sipsolutions.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action' From: Johannes Berg To: Mathieu Malaterre Cc: "David S. Miller" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:19:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: (sfid-20190124_191458_847102_6753A793) References: <20190124180535.20216-1-malat@debian.org> <2b8b377a84883db1a45afb42204d8fb5a7d5ccf9.camel@sipsolutions.net> (sfid-20190124_191458_847102_6753A793) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.28.5 (3.28.5-2.fc28) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 19:14 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > I'm not sure this will work on all platforms, didn't something like > > alpha pad out u8's to u32 when not requiring packing? > > I was not aware of that. TBH, I'm not actually sure about that. Pure hearsay. If anyone knows, I'd like to know too :) johannes