linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging : android : uapi : fix coding style

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Message-ID: <1397659190.32088.4.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 07:39:50 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Seunghun Lee <waydi1@...il.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, swetland@...gle.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging : android : uapi : fix coding style

(adding John Stultz)

On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 23:27 +0900, Seunghun Lee wrote:
> This patch fix checkpatch.pl warnings and errors.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/binder.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/binder.h
[]
> @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ struct binder_ptr_cookie {
>  struct binder_handle_cookie {
>  	__u32 handle;
>  	binder_uintptr_t cookie;
> -} __attribute__((packed));
> +} __packed;

If this .h file is meant to be a user-space #include,
then it should not use the kernel specific __packed
but keep the __attribute__((packed))

It does use __u32 though and that's generally
kernel specific.

John?  Does any of these binder uapi files need a
bit more sorting out?

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