Re: [-next] FATAL: drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl: sizeof(struct usb_device_id)=24 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_usb_device_table=44.

Bjørn Mork [off-list ref] writes:

AFAIK (which admittedly is not much wrt cross building) there is no way
we can make the host built file2alias know the proper aligment for the
structure in the target built modules.  That's the background for this
fix: 

commit 4ce6efed48d736e3384c39ff87bda723e1f8e041
Author: Sam Ravnborg [off-list ref]
Date:   Sun Mar 23 21:38:54 2008 +0100

    kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds

This is not a fix in any sense of the word.  modpost can only work
properly if its view of the device_id structures matches *exactly* that
of the target.

Andreas.

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