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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Still I can't see why this structure will cause alignment issues, as the
> compiler will pad it up to the right boundary automagically, as you said
> above. Why doesn't the ARM compiler do this?

The ARM compiler handles it correctly.

But the ugly hacks to get useful information about the module device
table using the _host_ compiler fail.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/