Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel: add byteorder macros with alignment fixups

From: Al Viro
Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 14:29:27 EST


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:34:14AM -0700, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> A common pattern in the kernel (especially networking) is:
>
> le32_to_cpu(get_unaligned((__le32 *)x));
>
> Repeat for various combinations of le/be and 64/32/16 bit. Add
> a variant that operates on possibly unaligned pointers to
> byteorder/generic.h

... and asm/unaligned.h has just acquired fuckloads of places including
it indirectly. Not Nice(tm).
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