[PATCH 1/1] drivers: brcmaxi: provide amba axi functionality in separate module

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 29 March 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 11:40 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/brcmaxi/axi.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,786 @@
> ...
> > +/* resetctrl */
> > +#define	AIRC_RESET		1
> > +
> > +/* definition for specifying padding fields */
> > +#define	_PADLINE(line)	pad ## line
> > +#define	_XSTR(line)	_PADLINE(line)
> > +#define	PAD		_XSTR(__LINE__)
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * struct aidmp - device management plugin "wrapper" registers.
> > + */
> > +struct aidmp {
> 
> This looks like it should be __packed__.

Why that? Adding the packed attribute would enforce byte access but
not change the layout of the structure, so I think that would make
it worse not better.

	Arnd