On Sat, 16 Nov 2013, Hans de Goede wrote: > > No, Linux relies on the compiler to pack things like this together and > > not put padding in, with the __packed__ attribute (don't we have a > > __packed macro instead of the __attribute__() thing?) > > Yes we've a __packed macro, but the norm in the usb subsys seems to be to use > __attribute__ ((__packed__)), see include/[uapi/]linux/usb/*.h
That's different. Things under include/uapi are meant for use by userspace programs, so they can't rely on kernel-internal things like the __packed macro. This is also the reason why those .h files always use __u8 or __le16 rather than u8 or le16. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
