On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 18:52:23 UTC+5:30, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, Vatika Harlalka wrote: 
>
> > This patch addresses the checkpatch.pl warning 
> > 
> > WARNING: __aligned(size) is preferred over 
> __attribute__((aligned(size))) 
>
> You could try to find out why it is preferred and explain that.  I don't 
> know if there is an interesting reason, but you might find some comments 
> in git logs. 
>
>   >> Thanks for the input. I checked git logs and it seems that aligned(x) 
is a macro :
  >>     #define __aligned(x)                   __attribute__((aligned(x)))

> Signed-off-by: Vatika Harlalka <vatikah...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> > --- 
> >  drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h | 3 +-- 
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) 
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h 
> b/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h 
> > index ee1b80d..90c5d1d 100644 
> > --- a/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h 
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/emxx_udc/emxx_udc.h 
> > @@ -535,8 +535,7 @@ typedef struct _T_FC_REGS { 
> > 
> >          u8 Reserved1200[0x1000-0x200];        /* Reserved */ 
> > 
> > -} __attribute__ ((aligned(32))) T_FC_REGS, *PT_FC_REGS; 
> > - 
> > +} __aligned(32) T_FC_REGS, *PT_FC_REGS; 
>
> It looks like an extra line has disappeared?  Was that intentional? 
>
 
 >> The extra line was not a part of the original code. I had added and 
then removed it.
 

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