RE: [PATCH v2 13/13] asm-generic: simplify asm/unaligned.h

From: David Laight
Date: Fri May 14 2021 - 06:36:14 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 14 May 2021 11:01
>
> The get_unaligned()/put_unaligned() implementations are much more complex
> than necessary, now that all architectures use the same code.
...
> This new version does allow aggregate types into get_unaligned(), which
> was not the original goal but might come in handy.

Adding '* 1' to the value would stop that and shouldn't add any code.
Although you might want to cast back to the original type to
avoid 'short' being converted to 'int'.

David

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