linux-kernel - Re: [kbuild] drivers/regulator/bd718x7-regulator.c:531:8: warning: Excessive padding in 'struct bd718xx_regulator_data' (8 padding bytes, where 0 is optimal).

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Message-ID: <20210819113741.GK4177@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 19 Aug 2021 12:37:41 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@...il.com>
Cc:     kernel test robot <yujie.liu@...el.com>,
        Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@....com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, kbuild-all@...ts.01.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kbuild] drivers/regulator/bd718x7-regulator.c:531:8: warning:
 Excessive padding in 'struct bd718xx_regulator_data' (8 padding bytes, where
 0 is optimal).

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:34:22AM +0300, Matti Vaittinen wrote:

> something changes would cause quite a churn of changes... What is
> expected to be done as a result from these mails?

It's probably fine to ignore them for something like this which is going
to get very few uses in the kernel - it gets a lot more interesting for
something that gets lots of copies allocated since that causes the bloat
to really add up.

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