linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED

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Message-Id: <20080320.142707.170694458.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	johannes@...solutions.net
Cc:	sam@...nborg.org, dsd@...too.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig
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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:21:46 +0100

> Yeah, good point. Should I rename it to HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> or similar? Or have it defined as some sort of number so you can make
> actually make tradeoffs? Like Dave Woodhouse suggested at some point to
> have get_unaligned() take an argument that indicates the probability...

Yes, that name and something with a "score" of some sort would
be nice.

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