On Sunday 10 February 2008, David Miller wrote: > From: Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:00:13 -0500 > > This function never returns an error, so the simplest fix was to > return the hash value which avoids all of the issues. In attempting > other schemes to fix this, I found it very difficult to give gcc > a packed attribute for that "u64 *" argument other than to create > some new pseudo structure which would have been ugly. > Many thanks, I clearly didn't put enough thought into the unaligned access problems.
> Similar code lives in the btrfs kernel code too, I'll try to get a > partition at least mounted and working minimally and if successful > I'll send you patches for that too. The kernel is actually worse, because the set/get macros are more complex. Some live in ctree.h like in the progs, but the nasty ones live in struct-funcs.c -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
