linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling

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Message-ID: <5101B42D.2090709@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:22:37 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross
 compiling

Dne 20.1.2013 17:58, Andreas Schwab napsal(a):
> Use the target compiler to compute the offsets for the fields of the
> device_id structures, so that it won't be broken by different alignments
> between the host and target ABIs.
> 
> This also fixes missing endian corrections for some modaliases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
> ---
> This has been tested with an allmodconfig cross build of the m68k
> kernel.  This is the difference in the generated module aliases before
> and after the patch:

Nice! I merged your patch to kbuild.git#kbuild.

Thanks,
Michal
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