Re: [PATCH 2/8] SFI: include/linux/sfi.h

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:28:11 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > +/*
> > + * Table structures must be byte-packed to match the SFI specification,
> > + * as they are provided by the BIOS.
> > + */
> > +#pragma pack(1)
> 
> We use __attribute__((packed)) for that generally.

Or __packed.  I usually recommend __packed because I can never remember
the weird arrangement of underscores and parentheses in the gcc thing.
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