On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 09:12:52PM +0100, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > I don't know the ARM architecture at all (I don't know if the other > batman-adv developers do), so could you please provide here some more > details about why that static check is failing? We would like to > address this issue differently rather than re-adding the __packed > attribute. The reason is this struct becomes a size of 4 bytes, even though it only contains three uint8_t members. This offsets the members of all structs that this struct is embedded in. If you don't wish to fix this, then please make your subsystem depend on !ARM because it's otherwise impossible to fix and can never work on ARM. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html