From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450EFCD6913 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 09:29:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230139AbjJJJ3t (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:29:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:44846 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229594AbjJJJ3s (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:29:48 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21E2194 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:29:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1696930144; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=OxCiYvYV9qvLPGaQcB0kw4NAjm9ttFkbDiaJd+SrBGA=; b=Gwz5LlOWhejF8EMoDb5BjKxRcb2dCqeYhKWqf4BQKOBbJvQb9yIXPDL08HXOGYlDm8YEuh DE2qxBRJO2TaZx/TL2N8tnIgLfESK7kM2aEeGOhhFCEnkQxQF66mZL/6nfB1D8O5Olf3ag 1eIknom6Lz21BdnHbNA4+00KDTphKc0= Received: from mail-ed1-f72.google.com (mail-ed1-f72.google.com [209.85.208.72]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-368-82k_DWvcPeerVxFoEk0UUA-1; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 05:28:57 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 82k_DWvcPeerVxFoEk0UUA-1 Received: by mail-ed1-f72.google.com with SMTP id 4fb4d7f45d1cf-53479f2bfb7so824634a12.0 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:28:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1696930136; x=1697534936; h=mime-version:user-agent:content-transfer-encoding:references :in-reply-to:date:cc:to:from:subject:message-id:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=OxCiYvYV9qvLPGaQcB0kw4NAjm9ttFkbDiaJd+SrBGA=; b=CgV0UPBzKQcCr8XFJFiLjFI4b22N7a02LZl7Hz+UwMHLhmYkkEb05kAO4ad17LrpUi rv7t/FxZHA6u8K6BftxiWUtpyinKZNesvWLH47hHsCrbd+1tSxKeqng3BAvT4Mnnm5nQ WiKexZhd1po+E0qY3E0ZAvtrUi3SRSIENzJUYJMrPOf7YkDLtU0IrLaWv2X0FqxFXtFQ lLNYd3C4GKKHzv48iYvRB/FxVu2s16UyS/wGHu6wODXdY51nE/8EP5KTmfjhrWSFRaib vsTn4mSoEuC/wEhwirKoKjyWtqXAd3wb/8qBAL34j2OPU8uOz7aAFVU7TJ4clpPUyUJt ElzA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YzvRwOyKIJMbfoQV07aapl52mzY3iAcq8SKdHNSEYPTapIUw28r L5d3QKvCXTWHRzvJPoV2NofCCCS7S2FJyXjMPcaMTr+CUsLczwzhIQeBOenrJXjnNNRa5qUkGYz dZ7qr4ZnTpnSsRknXtf4IXHO7 X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:40c2:b0:523:37cf:6f37 with SMTP id z2-20020a05640240c200b0052337cf6f37mr14733546edb.4.1696930136465; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:28:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEJPAx0QHx22OMargM+EBFoGBj2R+pr1dyTcELronIVBN9Cn975WI9liuJm10euXLGllBG8kw== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:40c2:b0:523:37cf:6f37 with SMTP id z2-20020a05640240c200b0052337cf6f37mr14733531edb.4.1696930136150; Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gerbillo.redhat.com (146-241-228-243.dyn.eolo.it. [146.241.228.243]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c6-20020aa7c746000000b00537f5e85ea0sm7326021eds.13.2023.10.10.02.28.55 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39546eb7836e577b53a3b403a2bb20ec07010f25.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] octeon_ep: pack hardware structures From: Paolo Abeni To: Shinas Rasheed , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hgani@marvell.com Cc: egallen@redhat.com, mschmidt@redhat.com, Veerasenareddy Burru , Sathesh Edara , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:28:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20231006120225.2259533-1-srasheed@marvell.com> References: <20231006120225.2259533-1-srasheed@marvell.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.46.4 (3.46.4-1.fc37) MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2023-10-06 at 05:02 -0700, Shinas Rasheed wrote: > Add packed attribute to hardware structures. Could you please elaborate a bit more why this is needed? Is this a bugfix? Or something needed by later changes? Please update the changelog accordingly Thanks! Paolo