The 'filler' field, IIRC, is there to make transfers easier because sizeof() the structure is exactly the size to be transferred. And, in the early days, it was pretty clear that people were prone to jamming useful bits into 'reserved' and 'filler' fields (i.e. look how multi-target got implemented). Matt On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > >> This is mostly a re-post of an earlier submission from 13.01.12. Patch #3 >> address Michał's comment to remove a few more constans. >> Could someone please pick them up? > > There's really nothing to object to about these patches. Why not just > send them directly to Greg? > > Alan Stern > > P.S.: What on Earth is that "Filler" field doing in struct > bulk_cs_wrap? As far as I can tell, it never gets used for anything > and should be removed. > -- Matthew Dharm Maintainer, USB Mass Storage driver for Linux -- 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
