linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH linux dev-4.10 3/6] drivers/misc: Add driver for Aspeed PECI and generic PECI headers

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Date:   Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:06:23 +1100
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@...ux.intel.com>, joel@....id.au,
        andrew@...id.au, arnd@...db.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        jdelvare@...e.com, linux@...ck-us.net
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux dev-4.10 3/6] drivers/misc: Add driver for Aspeed
 PECI and generic PECI headers

On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 14:31 -0800, Jae Hyun Yoo wrote:
> +struct peci_rd_ia_msr_msg {
> +       unsigned char target;
> +       unsigned char thread_id;
> +       unsigned short address;
> +       unsigned long value;
> +};

Those types are representing messages on the wire ?

In that case those types aren't suitable. For example "long" will have
a different size and alignment for 32 and 64-bit userspace. There are
size-explicit userspace types available.

Also I didn't see any endianness annotations in there. Is that expected
? IE are those wire format packets ?

Cheers,
Ben.