Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:46:23 +0200 | | From | Markus Trippelsdorf <> | | Subject | Re: __packed vs. __attribute__((packed)) in kernel headers |
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On 2011.06.23 at 19:04 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf > <markus@trippelsdorf.de> wrote: > > A recent commit 3627924acf70a changed __attribute__ ((packed)) to > > __packed in some UBI headers. This breaks the build of busybox: > > > > CC miscutils/ubi_attach_detach.o > > In file included from miscutils/ubi_attach_detach.c:27:0: > > /usr/include/mtd/ubi-user.h:330:3: error: conflicting types for ‘__packed’ > > /usr/include/mtd/ubi-user.h:314:3: note: previous declaration of ‘__packed’ was here > > /usr/include/mtd/ubi-user.h:372:3: error: conflicting types for ‘__packed’ > > /usr/include/mtd/ubi-user.h:314:3: note: previous declaration of ‘__packed’ was here > > ... > > > > But this kind of change is suggested by checkpatch.pl: > > WARN("__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))\n > > > > One possible solution would be to let the "scripts/headers_install.pl" > > script automatically substitute __packed with __attribute__((packed)): > > > > diff --git a/scripts/headers_install.pl b/scripts/headers_install.pl > > index efb3be1..e0dc065 100644 > > --- a/scripts/headers_install.pl > > +++ b/scripts/headers_install.pl > > @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ foreach my $file (@files) { > > $line =~ s/([\s(])__iomem\s/$1/g; > > $line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__\s/ /g; > > $line =~ s/\s__attribute_const__$//g; > > + $line =~ s/\s__packed/__attribute__((packed))/g; > > $line =~ s/^#include <linux\/compiler.h>//; > > $line =~ s/(^|\s)(inline)\b/$1__$2__/g; > > $line =~ s/(^|\s)(asm)\b(\s|[(]|$)/$1__$2__$3/g; > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Hmm, this introduces a new error source. > Whenever we change the definition of __packed we have to > adjust headers_install.pl too.
That definition will never change as long as we use gcc.
The __packed shortcut was introduced 2007 (commit 82ddcb04057). It's use in the exported header files could cause problems, because the outside world doesn't necessarily know about that shortcut.
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