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Fix b43 driver build for arm
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fix-b43-driver-build-for-arm.patch
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Subject: Fix b43 driver build for arm
From: "Gordon Farquharson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Align the members of the SSB device structure to a 32 bit boundary so that
the b43 driver can be built for arm using a cross compiler. This alignment
is required so that the test in scripts/mod/file2alias.c that checks that
the size of the device ID type against the size of the section in the
object file succeeds (see comment and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/481
for explanation).
Signed-off-by: Gordon Farquharson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/mod_devicetable.h | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN include/linux/mod_devicetable.h~fix-b43-driver-build-for-arm
include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
--- a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h~fix-b43-driver-build-for-arm
+++ a/include/linux/mod_devicetable.h
@@ -351,7 +351,13 @@ struct sdio_device_id {
struct ssb_device_id {
__u16 vendor;
__u16 coreid;
- __u8 revision;
+ /* Explicit padding to support a broken sanity check in file2alias.c.
+ * The check compares the size of the structure in the kernel
+ * object file to the size of the structure reported in userspace for
+ * the system on which the kernel is compiled. The check breaks on
+ * cross-compilation, and the padding is a workaround for this. */
+ __u8 revision
+ __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(__u32))));
};
#define SSB_DEVICE(_vendor, _coreid, _revision) \
{ .vendor = _vendor, .coreid = _coreid, .revision = _revision, }
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