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Message-ID: <BANLkTinSueVgV1xyLVo1nycnLm4VJOyTtA@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:19:17 +0200 From: August Lilleaas <august@...ustl.com> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] Firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed)) with __packed Forwarding as plain text, mistakenly sent as HTML mail first. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: August Lilleaas <august@...ustl.com> Date: Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:11 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH] Firewire: net: replacing deprecated __attribute__((packed)) with __packed To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> Cc: linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org 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. > > Shouldn't you add "#include <linux/compiler.h>" now? You're right. I'll read up on updating patches and get at it. > > -- > 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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