From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning for new __packed additions
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:04:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530BC209.2000708@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393279377.11020.66.camel@joe-AO722>
On 02/24/2014 05:02 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 16:52 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
>> I've been lead to
>> believe that most cases now people should be using regmap instead, which
>> just leaves the case of having to match on-disk formats or similar cases
>> I believe as the things that must stay __packed.
>
> __packed is also necessary for on-wire networking protocols.
Indeed, and there's probably a few other valid cases I'm also
forgetting. But the common case is hardware, where regmap is now preferred.
I've got this modified to a CHK and only for non-file usage. Anything
else we want to talk about before I repost?
--
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-24 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-24 20:38 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning for new __packed additions Tom Rini
2014-02-24 21:00 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-24 21:11 ` Tom Rini
2014-02-24 21:28 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-24 21:52 ` Tom Rini
2014-02-24 22:02 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-24 22:04 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2014-02-24 22:08 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-24 22:20 ` Tom Rini
2014-02-24 22:31 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-24 22:43 ` Tom Rini
2014-02-25 5:23 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-25 12:30 ` Tom Rini
2014-02-26 22:04 ` Joe Perches
2014-02-27 20:33 ` Tom Rini
2014-02-25 8:56 ` Heiko Carstens
2014-02-24 21:31 ` josh
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