Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2011 11:14:37 +0200 |
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On Thursday 31 March 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote: > I don't see why it couldn't like without the packed attribute. (The > manual says packed attribute for a struct is equivalent to specifying > packed to each member of that struct. It doesn't say anything about the > structure alignment itself.)
To give some more background, any variable that is marked packed is assumed to be potentially unaligned (byte aligned). If a struct contains only members with byte alignment, it too is byte aligned.
Arnd
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