> Adrian Bunk: scripts/mod/file2alias.c is compiled with HOSTCC and ensures that
> kernel_ulong_t is correct, but it can't cope with different padding on
> different architectures.
Surely this is the root cause ... you can't expect that the alignment
rules of HOSTCC to make any sense for an arbitraty target.
> +#define FILLUP_LEN 7 /* dirty fix for i386 -> 64bit cross-compilation */
>
> struct acpi_device_id {
> __u8 id[ACPI_ID_LEN];
> + __u8 dummy[FILLUP_LEN];
> kernel_ulong_t driver_data;
> };
What's so special about this structure that we get an error? Surely
there are many kernel structures with different alignment/padding
when built with i386 complier compared with ia64 compiler. We can't
go around manually padding them all (it wastes time, and also wastes
memory on the 32-bit systems that don't need this padding).
-Tony
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