On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:43 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008 23:34:10 Russell King wrote:
> >
> > Well, don't expect this driver to work until you fix your broken
> > assumptions about alignment requirements.
>
> Mr King, I'm not an idiot!
>
> Can you _please_ explain what makes ARM so special here?
> Why can't we have an array of this structure on ARM?
>
> struct ssb_device_id {
> __u16 vendor;
> __u16 coreid;
> __u8 revision;
> };
>
> I will not apply any patches that I don't understand.
> Why doesn't the compiler handle this? What's special? Can you please explain?
>
I believe this is a good place to start (although I could be totally
off-base)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/22/120
Harvey
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