Re: [PATCH 3/6] drivers: hv: Cleanup the kvp related state inhyperv.h

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 03:55:59PM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Now cleanup the hyperv.h with regards to KVP definitions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  include/linux/hyperv.h |   32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hyperv.h b/include/linux/hyperv.h
> index 7332b3f..802ece8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hyperv.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hyperv.h
> @@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ struct hv_ku_msg {
>  
>  
>  
> -#ifdef __KERNEL__
>  
>  /*
>   * Registry value types.
> @@ -162,29 +161,36 @@ enum hv_kvp_exchg_pool {
>  	KVP_POOL_COUNT /* Number of pools, must be last. */
>  };
>  
> +#ifndef __packed
> +#define __packed __attribute__((packed))
> +#endif

Why do this?

If you are so worried about this in userspace, then just change the
values below to __attribute__((packed)), like all of the other public .h
files do.

thanks,

greg k-h
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