On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 15:48 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 11:41:29PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:

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+#define __packed __attribute__((packed))

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When I ran the checkpatch script against these patches I got a warning that the
preferred directive was to use "__packed".

Well, checkpatch is stupid sometimes.

True.

I suppose checkpatch warning could be improved to
say that it's preferred for "kernel only" files
and should be ignored for public/user cases.