Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 May 2007 02:02:18 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote: >> +struct raw1394_cycle_timer32 { >> + __u32 cycle_timer; >> + __u64 local_time; >> +} __attribute__((packed)); > > Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but > not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in > 32 bit mode.
Is this conversion just unnecessary or actually harmful on ppc64 and others? -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== -=-= =-=-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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