Re: [PATCH] virtio_gpio: drop packed attribute

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Nov 04 2021 - 11:38:35 EST


On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 10:11 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Declaring the struct packed here is mostly harmless,
> but gives a bad example for people to copy.
> As the struct is packed and aligned manually,
> let's just drop the attribute.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpio.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpio.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpio.h
> index 0445f905d8cc..25c95a034674 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpio.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_gpio.h
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ struct virtio_gpio_config {
> __le16 ngpio;
> __u8 padding[2];
> __le32 gpio_names_size;
> -} __packed;
> +};
>
> /* Virtio GPIO Request / Response */
> struct virtio_gpio_request {
> --
> MST
>

Applied, thanks!

Bart