On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:02:19PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sunday 02 December 2007 22:22:31 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > > Yeah, that could work. Have a header with stuff like this:
> > >
> > > typedef u16 __attribute__((aligned(2))) aligned_u16;
> > > typedef u32 __attribute__((aligned(4))) aligned_u32;
> >
> > I gave it a try:
>
> This seems to turn a molehill into a mountain.
>
> We can change that mod_devicetable.h at any time; it's not supposed to be a
> userspace API (the kernel build system doesn't count).
module-init-tools is userspace and not shipped as part of the kernel
build system...
> So, just insert two bits of padding in sdio_device_id and insert a comment
> saying "/* Explicit padding: works even if we're cross-compiling */".
We had one such problem in 2.6.23 and now we had a similar one in 2.6.24.
Getting the alignment issues automatically right would really be an
improvement...
> Thanks,
> Rusty.
cu
Adrian
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