linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] Staging: hv: mousevsc: Fix checkpatch errors and warnings

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Message-ID: <1311103713.12882.13.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:28:33 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] Staging: hv: mousevsc: Fix checkpatch errors and
 warnings

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:44 -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> Fix checkpatch errors and warnings.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c b/drivers/staging/hv/hv_mouse.c
[]
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ struct hv_input_dev_info {
> -#pragma pack(push,1)
> +#pragma pack(push, 1)
>  /*
>   * Message types in the synthetic input protocol
>   */

Perhaps it's better and more consistent with
other kernel style uses to remove #pragma pack[...]
and mark the individual structs with __packed;

$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "pragma.*pack" * | wc -l
221
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] "(__attribute__.*packed|\b__packed\b)" * | wc -l
5553


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