Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

[Harvey Harrison]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:43 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 23:34:10 Russell King wrote:
> > 
> > Well, don't expect this driver to work until you fix your broken
> > assumptions about alignment requirements.
> 
> Mr King, I'm not an idiot!
> 
> Can you _please_ explain what makes ARM so special here?
> Why can't we have an array of this structure on ARM?
> 
> struct ssb_device_id {
>        __u16   vendor;
>        __u16   coreid;
>        __u8    revision;
> };
> 
> I will not apply any patches that I don't understand.
> Why doesn't the compiler handle this? What's special? Can you please explain?
> 

I believe this is a good place to start (although I could be totally
off-base)

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/22/120

Harvey

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