[PATCH] Firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed))with __packed

From: August Lilleaas
Date: Sun May 29 2011 - 18:19:42 EST


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From: August Lilleaas <august@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Firewire: net: replacing deprecated
__attribute__((packed)) with __packed
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux1394-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Stefan Richter
<stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Who deprecated it and why?

To be frank, the motivation for this patch was a message from
script/checkpatch.pl when scouring random files for warnings. (This is
my first contribution to the kernel.)
Just did some much needed investigation though. It was deprecated for
portability, specifically to avoid GCC specific code. See commit
82ddcb040570411fc2d421d96b3e69711c670328.

>
> Shouldn't you add "#include <linux/compiler.h>" now?

You're right. I'll read up on updating patches and get at it.

>
> --
> Stefan Richter
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