netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: define __packed for the userspace code

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Date:	Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiaosuo@...il.com
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: define __packed for the userspace code

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:36:09 -0700 (PDT)

> From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:29:49 +0800
> 
>> Do you mean that use the __attribute__((packed)) annotation in all of
>> these files:
>> 
>> localhost linux # grep "\<__packed\>" usr/include/ -r | uniq
>> usr/include/linux/if_hippi.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/if_fddi.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/nbd.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/ncp.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/rfkill.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/if_pppox.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/phonet.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/ipv6.h:} __packed;    /* required for some archs */
>> usr/include/linux/ipv6.h:} __packed;
>> usr/include/linux/if_ether.h:} __packed;
> 
> It seems so, yes.

Changli I applied your patch to convert these __packed tags back to
the original expansion.

Thanks!
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