From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse•de>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse•cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah•com>,
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>,
erazor_de@users•sourceforge.net,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime•net>,
linux-doc@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
linux-input@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in driver headers
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 07:16:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101202151642.GA15449@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1012021604110.14806@pobox.suse.cz>
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@suse•de>
to the driver core changes.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-02 15:16 UTC|newest]
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2010-11-26 20:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] HID: roccat: declaring meaning of pack pragma usage in driver headers Ben Hutchings
2010-11-30 17:40 ` Greg KH
2010-12-02 15:04 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-12-02 15:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-11-26 19:57 Stefan Achatz
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