linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] Input: mms114

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:27:52 +0900
From:   Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Simon Shields <simon@...eageos.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] Input: mms114 - remove unused variable

Hi Dmitry,

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:43:09AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:33:19PM +0900, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > '__packed' is not used anywhere, remove it.
> 
> Umm, this is not a variable, this is type annotation meaning that the
> structure is packed. Still not needed, as we are not using anything but
> u8 data elements, but justification is completely wrong.

Oh dammit! :)

of course! The original idea was the alignment of the structure,
but I must have got confused while re-editing all the commits.

Sorry, I'll fix it.

Andi