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

From: Michael Buesch
Date: Tue Feb 19 2008 - 05:35:41 EST


On Tuesday 19 February 2008 09:37:05 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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.

Ok, fine. So I'm not going to apply this patch. We need
to fix the sanity check instead.

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Greetings Michael.
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