linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802190935450.25052@anakin>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:37:05 +0100 (CET)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
cc:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linville@...driver.com,
	stefano.brivio@...imi.it
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Michael Buesch wrote:
> Still I can't see why this structure will cause alignment issues, as the
> compiler will pad it up to the right boundary automagically, as you said
> above. Why doesn't the ARM compiler do this?

The ARM compiler handles it correctly.

But the ugly hacks to get useful information about the module device
table using the _host_ compiler fail.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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