[U-Boot] [PATCH] usb: remove unnecessary packed attributes

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Aug 30 17:49:11 CEST 2012


Dear Lucas Stach,

> We don't actually need to pack those structs, as they
> are not used to do actual hardware access.
> 
> This avoids some unaligned accesses and therefore makes
> the EHCI stack work on ARMv7 without compiler workarounds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <dev at lynxeye.de>

I need to review this properly, will get back to it soon.

Until then, CCing other good fellows.

> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c | 2 +-
>  include/usb.h               | 2 +-
>  2 Dateien geändert, 2 Zeilen hinzugefügt(+), 2 Zeilen entfernt(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> index 18b4bc6..2f4fa5e 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static struct descriptor {
>  	struct usb_linux_config_descriptor config;
>  	struct usb_linux_interface_descriptor interface;
>  	struct usb_endpoint_descriptor endpoint;
> -}  __attribute__ ((packed)) descriptor = {
> +} descriptor = {
>  	{
>  		0x8,		/* bDescLength */
>  		0x29,		/* bDescriptorType: hub descriptor */
> diff --git a/include/usb.h b/include/usb.h
> index ba3d169..63730ee 100644
> --- a/include/usb.h
> +++ b/include/usb.h
> @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ struct usb_hub_descriptor {
>  	unsigned char  PortPowerCtrlMask[(USB_MAXCHILDREN+1+7)/8];
>  	/* DeviceRemovable and PortPwrCtrlMask want to be variable-length
>  	   bitmaps that hold max 255 entries. (bit0 is ignored) */
> -} __attribute__ ((packed));
> +};
> 
> 
>  struct usb_hub_device {

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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