Re: How to add/drop SCSI drives from within the driver?

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:07:55AM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > +} ld_device_address_t;
> 
> I would also suggest __attribute__((packed)) since you're sharing with
> userspace just to ensure you can never get it grown by the compiler
> (it shouldn't be, but just to be safe).

That's a bad idea, it forces the compiler to pessimise accesses to the
struct on most hardware.

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