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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:45:29 -0700
From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To: <trenn@...e.de>,
"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
Cc: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Jan Dittmer" <jdi@....org>,
"Netdev" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"Joachim Deguara" <joachim.deguara@....com>,
"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
"James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...eleye.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>,
"Seokmann Ju" <seokmann.ju@...gic.com>,
"Richard Lary" <rlary@...ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [2/2] 2.6.23-rc2: known regressions with patches
> > Caused-By : Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
> > commit 29b71a1ca74491fab9fed09e9d835d840d042690
> A patch was sent to Tony. AFAIK it got accepted, not sure whether it
> already is in any and which git tree...
The suggested patch adds manual padding to the acpi_device_id structure
definition in include/linux/mod_devicetable.h I didn't take it, and it
appears that nobody else did either. It is not in Linus' tree (as of 2.6.23-rc2).
I expressed doubts about whether this is the right fix. The problem
is that when cross-compiling a locally compiled utility makes a size &
alignment check. This is bogus. We shouldn't care whether this structure
compiles to the same size/alignment as the kernel that will use on the
target platform.
Is fixing this the right way (make the scripts/mod/file2alias.c understand
target alignment rules in a cross environment) just too hideous to
contemplate ... and we should just sacrifice 7 bytes of padding in
order to keep life simple?
-Tony
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