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Message-ID: <20110530011644.2d83cb44@stein>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 01:16:44 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To: August Lilleaas <august@...ustl.com>
Cc: linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Firewire: net: replacing deprecated
__attribute__((packed)) with __packed
On May 30 August Lilleaas wrote:
> 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.
OK, thanks for the info.
> > Shouldn't you add "#include <linux/compiler.h>" now?
> >
>
> You're right. I'll read up on updating patches and get at it.
I will just add it when I commit the patch.
(One way to update a patch is to make it the top commit, then edit files
and "git add ..." them as necessary, then "git commit --amend". There are
other ways of course.)
--
Stefan Richter
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