On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:07:15AM +0100, Malcolm Priestley wrote: > 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. Then say all of this in the patch please :) > > > > What happens if they are not? > The driver does not work. How is it working today without this change? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
