When desiring the whole struct to be packed, __packed should be applied to the whole struct, not just every struct member except the first one. Tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505. Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c index d8c6e75bb374..d401f9acf450 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c @@ -113,12 +113,12 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(fan_max, "Maximum configurable fan speed (default: autodetect)" struct smm_regs { unsigned int eax; - unsigned int ebx __packed; - unsigned int ecx __packed; - unsigned int edx __packed; - unsigned int esi __packed; - unsigned int edi __packed; -}; + unsigned int ebx; + unsigned int ecx; + unsigned int edx; + unsigned int esi; + unsigned int edi; +} __packed; static const char * const temp_labels[] = { "CPU", -- 2.30.2