Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 23:18 schrieb Alan Stern:
> I don't know why struct usb_device_descriptor is packed.  In fact, most of
> the structures defined in usb_ch9.h are packed for no apparent reason.  
> Maybe it's so you can dereference descriptors embedded in the 
> rawdescriptors array; those definitely are _not_ aligned.

I went through this file checking for the size of a structure and
noticed that these structuress are packed. Not being able to understand
the reason I proposed to change that. Russell objected. This makes
no sense. EIther none of these structures should be packed, or all
should be packed.

        Regards
                Oliver


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