[coreboot] What is the best way to treat warnings reported by checkpatch.pl

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 05:22:55 CEST 2016


On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 7:15 PM Stefan Reinauer <
stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org> wrote:

>
>
> > Finally, why the use of packed? In general you really only want to use
> packed
> > when you're using it to directly address data. Why not deserialize the
> data
> > from memory into an unpacked struct? That's how ACPICA seems to do it.
>
> Because in most cases, it is not data, but register space we are
> accessing.
>
> Are you suggesting to learn our coding style from ACPI? Who are you and
> what did you do to Ron Minnich? ;)
>
>
>

but in this does not seem to be. It looks like a table. Is it really
registers?

ron
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