On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 09:17:46PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote: > There are several reasons why we would prefer to use what the Kernel > gives us as infrastructure. But hey, it's your call. Below is the copy > of the commit which added that check to checkpatch.pl: > > commit 3d130fd03e06672f7700e2cb694b29f9a98227ca > Author: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Jan 12 17:00:00 2011 -0800 > > checkpatch.pl: add "prefer __packed" check > > There's a __packed #define for __attribute__((packed)). Add a checkpatch > to tell people about it. That's great, for new patches, by all means use __packed. But for old code, sometimes going through and changing it is a bit useless, right? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
