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    SubjectRe: need for packed attribute
    On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 06:38:46PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
    > > /* All standard descriptors have these 2 fields at the beginning */
    > > struct usb_descriptor_header {
    > > __u8 bLength;
    > > __u8 bDescriptorType;
    > > };
    >
    > sizeof(struct usb_descriptor_header) will be 4 on ARM. If this
    > concerns you, you need to pack the structure thusly:

    Interesting. Perhaps we should add -Wpadded to CFLAGS in order to remind
    people, although that might take a fair bit of work to clean up existing
    structure definitions.

    -ben
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