[PATCH net v4] net: airoha: Add missing filed to ppe_mbox_data struct

Jakub Kicinski kuba at kernel.org
Thu May 1 07:15:18 PDT 2025


On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:17:41 +0200 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> Moreover, add __packed attribute to ppe_mbox_data struct definition and
> make the fw layout padding explicit in init_info struct.

Why? everything looks naturally packed now :(
__packed also forces the compiler to assume the data is unaligned AFAIU.
The recommended way to ensure the compiler doesn't insert padding is
to do a compile time assert.



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