On Saturday 08 December 2007 02:35:44 David Miller wrote:
> From: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:36:08 +0100
>
> > The wire protocol for the iv files is the following structure:
> >
> > struct b43_iv {
> > be16 a;
> > union {
> > be16 x;
> > be32 y;
> > } ((attr_packed));
> > } ((attr_packed));
> >
> > How do I handle that in userspace? In kernel space it's simple
> > (and we already use get_unaligned() for the 32bit value there).
>
> If you marked it packed, on platforms like sparc, MIPS, and IA-64, the
> compiler is only going to use byte loads and stores to objects of this
> type.
>
> You don't need to use get_unaligned() on members of structures that
> are marked packed.
>
> If you look at the asm-generic/unaligned.h pure-C implementation,
> it uses the packed attribute, which really shows how redundant it
> is to use get_unaligned() on packed structure member access :-)
Uhm, ok.
But I guess then I'm not the only one who got all this wrong. ;)
--
Greetings Michael.
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