[PATCH 8/8] firmware: mark some structs as packed

[Alexander Huemer]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 07:58:33AM +0100, Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, thanks for this series of patch, I'll be sure to review and test them.
> 
Well, no problem, I had some time on hand I couldn't use otherwise.
> > this eliminates the occurrance of gcc warning
> > warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > ---
> >  src/target/firmware/include/comm/timer.h           |    4 +++-
> >  src/target/firmware/include/layer1/sched_gsmtime.h |    5 ++++-
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> > -};
> > +} __packed;
> 
> I'm not conviced by this one : Why should we use packed for structures
> not used as 'communication packets' ?
> 
What are the drawbacks ?

Steve and Holger raised some reasonable concerns on some of the other
patches, it seems I was quite unconcentrated and they are mostly crap.
The patches do not contain any "magic" anyway. Just straight-forward
reaction on the different kind of warnings. Most of them can be
eliminated easily.

Kind regards
-Alex