Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH 2/6] staging: media: intel-ipu3: preferred __aligned(size) over __attribute__aligned(size)

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Hi Mitali,

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 07:59:29PM +0530, Mitali Borkar wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:43:15PM +0300, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> > Hi Mitali,
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 04:38:59AM +0530, Mitali Borkar wrote:
> > > This patch fixes the warning identified by checkpatch.pl by replacing
> > > __attribute__aligned(size) with __aligned(size)
> > 
> > Same comments on this than the 1st patch.
> > 
> > It's a staging driver so even if this is a user space header, it's not
> > under include/uapi/linux.
> >
> Sir, I am not able to understandd what you are trying to say in this. As you
> mentioned in patch 1/6, I removed and added header where BIT() macro under 
> apprpriate userpace, but what should I modify in this patch?

The comment on the 1st patch and above was a weird way of saying "please
drop patches 1 and 2".

BIT(), __aligned() and __packed are macros in kernel headers that generally
are not available in headers exported for user space consumption.

-- 
Kind regards,

Sakari Ailus



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