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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:50:46 +0100 From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...hcoding.com> To: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> CC: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking <b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH] Fix ARM BUILD_BUG_ON() errors withbatman-adv -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/13 11:24, David Laight wrote: > ... >> The only solutions are: use the GCC packed attribute, redesign >> the structures... > > It is probably enough to mark the inner structure containing the > three byte fields 'packed'. Marking it aligned(1) might also have > the desired effect. The outer structure should then be ok. But > would need to use a specially named attribute so it doesn't get > removed. This may work with the structures I reported in a previous email, but it is not a good solution for us because we have other more complex substructs that cannot be packed that way. I think we will simply duplicate the members and avoid substructs in our packets. - -- Antonio Quartulli -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKcgiYACgkQpGgxIkP9cwfeeQCfef0xDfD2TucJBhzoTmDfwA29 Oc4An3Etz3USDC0cf/+R+Gyx8LEtpq16 =XZn5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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