Re: [PATCH] EHCI: Make ehci_qh structure items all 32bit aligned

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:23:58PM +0800, Alek Du wrote:
> >From 9bab93441d0969fe5f16ad8c8d61737e9eff02ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Alek Du <alek.du@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:53:59 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] EHCI: Make ehci_qh structure items all 32bit aligned
> 
> Intel Moorestown platform EHCI controller has internal SRAM using for
> caching of QH/QTD pools, but this SRAM has the 32bit alignment access
> limit, all SRAM access must be 32bit aligned. This patch will change
> only a few not u32 items to u32.

Why not just reorginize the fields to not need any padding and provide
the same functionality?   Just increasing the field size does bloat
things a bit, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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