netdev - Re: [PATCH/RFC] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED

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Message-Id: <1206038135.16475.148.camel@johannes.berg>
Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:35:35 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol


On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 19:13 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:34:55PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to
> > know at compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned
> > accesses. This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol
> > 	ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> 
> Can we please have a single symbol defined and name it:
> HAVE_*
> 
> Then the architectures that HAVE this feature can select the symbol.

Sure. Where should it be defined? arch/Kconfig?

> This follows the suggestion as available in
> Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

Guess I haven't read that in a while.

johannes

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