Re: [PATCH 3/5] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragmausage in driver headers

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Dec 02 2010 - 10:29:12 EST


On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:04:35PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > > Using pack pragma to prevent padding bytes in binary data structures
> > > > used for hardware communication. Explanation of these pragmas was requested.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > It would be clearer to use the '__packed' macro after each structure
> > > definition instead of using this awful Microsoft extension.
> >
> > I agree, that's the "normal" Linux way of doing things.
> >
> > Other than that, this patch set looks good to me. Jiri, if the packed
> > change is made, do you want me to take these through my tree, or do you
> > want to take them through yours? Whatever is easier for you is fine
> > with me.
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> as this is part of larger roccat patchset, I will be processing it through
> my tree once completely reviewed.

Great, feel free to add my:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
to the driver core changes.

thanks,

greg k-h
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