From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get/put unaligned helpers
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:43:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49946DB4.5000705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4993E2CA.1070408@panasas.com>
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.
--
Stefan Richter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-12 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 14:35 get/put unaligned helpers Christoph Hellwig
2009-02-11 15:48 ` Harvey Harrison
2009-02-12 8:50 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-12 12:44 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-02-12 12:55 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-02-12 14:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-02-12 18:43 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2009-02-12 20:20 ` Harvey Harrison
2009-02-13 22:07 ` Harvey Harrison
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