linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'

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Message-ID: <3b395c3564bf0c693090b066ec4c598c8d0bdb34.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:19:43 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Mathieu Malaterre <malat@...ian.org>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'

On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 19:14 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> > I'm not sure this will work on all platforms, didn't something like
> > alpha pad out u8's to u32 when not requiring packing?
> 
> I was not aware of that.

TBH, I'm not actually sure about that. Pure hearsay. If anyone knows,
I'd like to know too :)

johannes