On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 14:59 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:04:54PM +0100, Malcolm Priestley wrote: > > All structure members of BEACON_BUFFER/TX_BUFFER should be packed. > > Why? Only the first 4 members of these structures are live. The forth member is referenced at run-time by packed structures. typedef struct tagSTxBufHead typedef struct tagSTxShortBufHead in desc.h If these structures are not packed the alignment of these members will be wrong. > > What happens if they are not? The driver does not work. Regards Malcolm -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
