Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] iio: core: remove padding from private information

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:33:41 +0300
Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There was a recent discussion about this code:
>   https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/20200322165317.0b1f0674@archlinux/
> 
> This looks like a good time to removed this, since any issues about it
> should pop-up under testing, because the iio_dev is having a bit of an
> overhaul and stuff being moved to iio_dev_opaque.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>
*crosses fingers*

Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing.

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> index 33e2953cf021..27005ba4d09c 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
> @@ -1507,8 +1507,6 @@ struct iio_dev *iio_device_alloc(struct device *parent, int sizeof_priv)
>  		alloc_size = ALIGN(alloc_size, IIO_ALIGN);
>  		alloc_size += sizeof_priv;
>  	}
> -	/* ensure 32-byte alignment of whole construct ? */
> -	alloc_size += IIO_ALIGN - 1;
>  
>  	iio_dev_opaque = kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!iio_dev_opaque)