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Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 01:16:44 +0200 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: August Lilleaas <august@...ustl.com> Cc: linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed)) with __packed On May 30 August Lilleaas wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Stefan Richter > <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>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. OK, thanks for the info. > > Shouldn't you add "#include <linux/compiler.h>" now? > > > > You're right. I'll read up on updating patches and get at it. I will just add it when I commit the patch. (One way to update a patch is to make it the top commit, then edit files and "git add ..." them as necessary, then "git commit --amend". There are other ways of course.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-== -=-= ====- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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