On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:34:02 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > 
> > Is there no directive we can stick in there that forces a reasonable alignment (e.g. alignment == sizeof(type)) independently of arch?
> 
> We could use something like is used for compat_*.
> E.g. compare compat_s64 in <asm/compat.h> for x86 and powerpc.
> 

Yeah, that could work. Have a header with stuff like this:

typedef u16 __attribute__((aligned(2))) aligned_u16;
typedef u32 __attribute__((aligned(4))) aligned_u32;

and let all structures in mod_devicetable.h use those types.

Now does anyone have the time to code and test this?

Rgds
Pierre