linux-kernel - [PATCH] firmware: dmi: struct dmi

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Message-ID: <20150429140800.68071e2c@endymion.delvare>
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 14:08:00 +0200
From:	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Ivan.khoronzhuk" <ivan.khoronzhuk@...ballogic.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>
Subject: [PATCH] firmware: dmi: struct dmi_header should be packed

Apparently the compiler does fine without it, but it feels safer and
clearer to add the missing attribute.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
---
 include/linux/dmi.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-4.1-rc1.orig/include/linux/dmi.h	2015-04-28 20:42:00.496086088 +0200
+++ linux-4.1-rc1/include/linux/dmi.h	2015-04-29 13:56:50.761011023 +0200
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ struct dmi_header {
 	u8 type;
 	u8 length;
 	u16 handle;
-};
+} __packed;
 
 struct dmi_device {
 	struct list_head list;


-- 
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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