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Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'

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To: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:19:43 +0100
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <CA+7wUszXbRt=j1C1PF11EtnO2ojLpvL8Zs60c7UcEDrqjRMxOw@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20190124_191458_847102_6753A793)
References: <20190124180535.20216-1-malat@debian.org> <2b8b377a84883db1a45afb42204d8fb5a7d5ccf9.camel@sipsolutions.net> <CA+7wUszXbRt=j1C1PF11EtnO2ojLpvL8Zs60c7UcEDrqjRMxOw@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20190124_191458_847102_6753A793)

On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 19:14 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> > I'm not sure this will work on all platforms, didn't something like
> > alpha pad out u8's to u32 when not requiring packing?
> 
> I was not aware of that.

TBH, I'm not actually sure about that. Pure hearsay. If anyone knows,
I'd like to know too :)

johannes

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- [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'
  - From: Mathieu Malaterre
- Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'
  - From: Johannes Berg
- Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Remove attribute packed from struct 'action'
  - From: Mathieu Malaterre

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