checkpatch.pl false positive?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Apr 2 09:21:32 EDT 2020


On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 01:16:27PM +0100, Michele Sorcinelli wrote:
> On 4/2/20 1:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > No, the structure should be changed to actually be correct, as that is
> > not how it should be declared in order to not have any padding between
> > variables in the structure :)
> 
> What would be the correct way of declaring that structure?
> 

See any of the structures in include/linux/* that have:
	} __packed;
as their closing bracket.



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