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Message-ID: <b33101ca-c5f8-be9e-7759-4d044c2fd340@huawei.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:46:48 +0800
From: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@...wei.com>
To: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool] hns3: add support dump registers for hns3 driver
on 2023/8/28 7:20, Michal Kubecek wrote:
>> +#pragma pack(4)
>> +struct hns3_reg_tlv {
>> + u16 tag;
>> + u16 len;
>> +};
>> +
>> +struct hns3_reg_header {
>> + u64 magic_number;
>> + u8 is_vf;
>> + u8 rsv[7];
>> +};
>> +
>> +#pragma pack()
> Could we please avoid these #pragma directives? AFAIK this is a Microsoft
> extension, which, while implemented in gcc for compatibility reasons, is
> not very common in linux world. To be honest, I had to search the web to
> see what exactly does it do - and even after that, only checking the object
> file with gdb revealed that it does not really do anything except weakening
> the alignment of struct hns3_reg_header (as a whole). Given how the
> structure is used in this file, the only practical effect would be
> header_len in hns3_dump_regs() being 12 rather than 16 (on 64-bit
> architectures).
>
> Michal
okay, I will remove it in v2
Thanks,
Jijie Shao
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