Why get/put_unaligned are hidden behind #ifdef __KERNEL__ on PowerPCand Microblaze?

[Igor Zhbanov]

Hello!

I have found that functions get_unaligned and put_unaligned from unaligned.h
are hidden behind #ifdef __KERNEL__ on PowerPC and Microblaze architectures.
And are not hidden on other platforms. But why?
I think that these functions are very useful in user space.

So here is the patch:

diff -purN -U 5 linux-2.6.36/arch/microblaze/include/asm/unaligned.h
linux/arch/microblaze/include/asm/unaligned.h
--- linux-2.6.36/arch/microblaze/include/asm/unaligned.h	2010-10-21
00:30:22.000000000 +0400
+++ linux/arch/microblaze/include/asm/unaligned.h	2010-10-31
18:05:31.513345000 +0300
@@ -8,16 +8,13 @@
  */

 #ifndef _ASM_MICROBLAZE_UNALIGNED_H
 #define _ASM_MICROBLAZE_UNALIGNED_H

-# ifdef __KERNEL__
-
 # include <linux/unaligned/be_struct.h>
 # include <linux/unaligned/le_byteshift.h>
 # include <linux/unaligned/generic.h>

 # define get_unaligned	__get_unaligned_be
 # define put_unaligned	__put_unaligned_be

-# endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _ASM_MICROBLAZE_UNALIGNED_H */
diff -purN -U 5 linux-2.6.36/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unaligned.h
linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unaligned.h
--- linux-2.6.36/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unaligned.h	2010-10-21
00:30:22.000000000 +0400
+++ linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unaligned.h	2010-10-31
18:05:43.968057400 +0300
@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_UNALIGNED_H
 #define _ASM_POWERPC_UNALIGNED_H

-#ifdef __KERNEL__
-
 /*
  * The PowerPC can do unaligned accesses itself in big endian mode.
  */
 #include <linux/unaligned/access_ok.h>
 #include <linux/unaligned/generic.h>

 #define get_unaligned	__get_unaligned_be
 #define put_unaligned	__put_unaligned_be

-#endif	/* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif	/* _ASM_POWERPC_UNALIGNED_H */
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