Re: mainline build failure due to f1e4c916f97f ("drm/edid: add EDID block count and size helpers")

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat May 28 2022 - 17:09:24 EST


On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 10:31 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 11:59 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It's CONFIG_ARM_AEABI, which is normally set everywhere. Without this
> > option, you the kernel is built for the old 'OABI' that forces all non-packed
> > struct members to be at least 16-bit aligned.
>
> Looks like forced word (32 bit) alignment to me.

Ah, of course, I keep mixing it up with the odd structure alignment of m68k,
which does the opposite and aligns struct members to no more than 16 bits.

Arnd