Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2011-04-01 09:14:59
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2011-04-01 09:14:59
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On Thursday 31 March 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote:
I don't see why it couldn't like without the packed attribute. (The manual says packed attribute for a struct is equivalent to specifying packed to each member of that struct. It doesn't say anything about the structure alignment itself.)
To give some more background, any variable that is marked packed is assumed to be potentially unaligned (byte aligned). If a struct contains only members with byte alignment, it too is byte aligned. Arnd