linux-kernel - Re: get/put unaligned helpers

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Message-ID: <49946DB4.5000705@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:43:00 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
CC:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get/put unaligned helpers

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> When all this is done do you intend to also export
> the unaligned.h headers to user-mode just like the aligned Endian helpers?

Neither the aligned nor unaligned endian conversion helpers are
interfaces between kernel and userland, hence should not be exported.
Export of the aligned ones is a mistake of the past.  IIRC there were
different opinions on whether this mistake should be corrected; it seems
it won't.
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Stefan Richter
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