Re: [-next] FATAL: drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl: sizeof(struct usb_device_id)=24 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_usb_device_table=44.

[Andreas Schwab]

BjÃrn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> writes:

> AFAIK (which admittedly is not much wrt cross building) there is no way
> we can make the host built file2alias know the proper aligment for the
> structure in the target built modules.  That's the background for this
> fix: 
>
> commit 4ce6efed48d736e3384c39ff87bda723e1f8e041
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Sun Mar 23 21:38:54 2008 +0100
>
>     kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds

This is not a fix in any sense of the word.  modpost can only work
properly if its view of the device_id structures matches *exactly* that
of the target.

Andreas.

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