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Message-ID: <4993E2CA.1070408@panasas.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:50:18 +0200 From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com> To: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com> CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: get/put unaligned helpers Harvey Harrison wrote: > On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:35 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> I just loked into using the new get/put unaligned helpers. I must >> say that I'm really unhappy about the lack of typing there. We did >> put all the sparse infrastructure in place to make sure we do have >> strong typechecking for LE/Be types, but using these helpers defeats >> that. >> >> Can you please make these properly typed? > > Sorry, real life got in the way, I had a series in -mm for a few months > that did the typing and fixed the argument ordering by providing a > load/store API and then moving the existing users across, but that got > delayed while the (aligned) byteswapping patches were made suitable > for mainline. > > I'll get that series revived shortly. > > Harvey > Speaking of which. When all this is done do you intend to also export the unaligned.h headers to user-mode just like the aligned Endian helpers? That could help in a couple of projects, so you have my vote. Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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