From: Michal Suchánek > building ibmvtpm I noticed gcc warning complaining that second word of > struct ibmvtpm_crq in tpm_ibmvtpm_suspend is uninitialized. > > The structure is defined as > > struct ibmvtpm_crq { > u8 valid; > u8 msg; > __be16 len; > __be32 data; > __be64 reserved; > } __attribute__((packed, aligned(8))); > > initialized as > > struct ibmvtpm_crq crq; > u64 *buf = (u64 *) &crq; ...
Hrummfff.... What is that attribute for, seems pretty confusing and pointless to me. I also suspect that if you want to access it as two 64bit words it ought to be a union. David