Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 31 March 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> I don't see why it couldn't like without the packed attribute. (The
> manual says packed attribute for a struct is equivalent to specifying
> packed to each member of that struct. It doesn't say anything about the
> structure alignment itself.)

To give some more background, any variable that is marked packed is
assumed to be potentially unaligned (byte aligned). If a struct
contains only members with byte alignment, it too is byte aligned.

	Arnd
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