netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] octeon_ep: pack hardware structures

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Message-ID: <39546eb7836e577b53a3b403a2bb20ec07010f25.camel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:28:54 +0200
From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To: Shinas Rasheed <srasheed@...vell.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hgani@...vell.com
Cc: egallen@...hat.com, mschmidt@...hat.com, Veerasenareddy Burru
 <vburru@...vell.com>, Sathesh Edara <sedara@...vell.com>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski
 <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] octeon_ep: pack hardware structures

On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 05:02 -0700, Shinas Rasheed wrote:
> Add packed attribute to hardware structures.

Could you please elaborate a bit more why this is needed? Is this a
bugfix? Or something needed by later changes? Please update the
changelog accordingly

Thanks!

Paolo