Re: [PATCH] soc: fsl: Remove bogus packed attributes from qman.h

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:40:16PM -0500, Li Yang wrote:

Looks like the CAAM driver and dependent QBMAN driver doesn't support
COMPILE_TEST yet.  Are you trying to add the support for it?

Yes.

I think this is a valid concern that if the parent structure doesn't
meet certain alignment requirements, the alignment for the
sub-structure cannot be guaranteed.  If we just remove the __packed
attribute from the parent structure, the compiler could try to add
padding in the parent structure to fulfill the alignment requirements
of the sub structure which is not good.  I think the following changes
are a better fix for the warnings:

This works for me.  Thanks!
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