Re: Correct types for mod_devicetable.h (was: Re: m68k buildfailure)

From: Pierre Ossman
Date: Sun Dec 09 2007 - 12:08:34 EST


On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:22:31 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I gave it a try:
> - Remove existing alignment attributes from some device_id types
> - Introduce kernel_* types with proper size and alignment for
> cross-compilation (sample <asm/kerneltypes.h> for m68k included)
> - Introduce BITS_PER_KERNEL_LONG, to make it clearer it applies to the target
>
> Apart from a cross-compile session for m68k, it's untested.
>

This still requires a bit of maintenance to set up a kerneltypes.h for every arch. It also means we have to be very careful that gcc's internal alignment settings matched the ones in our header.

Rgds
Pierre

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