On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 3:11 AM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 21 Nov 2024, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On Wed, 2024-11-20 at 13:46 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On m68k, where the minimum alignment of unsigned long is 2 bytes:
Well, well, well, my old friend strikes again ;-).
These will always come up until we fix the alignment issue on m68k.
Hmmm. That patch you're replying too. Does it make the kernel source code
better or worse?
Touché ;-)
The same can be said about commit d811ac148f0afd2f ("virtchnl: fix
m68k build."): if you rely on a specific alignment, make sure to use
__aligned__ and/or struct padding.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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