From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760401AbZBLSnf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:43:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760072AbZBLSnU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:43:20 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:36238 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759894AbZBLSnT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:43:19 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <49946DB4.5000705@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:43:00 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090104 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Boaz Harrosh CC: Harvey Harrison , Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: get/put unaligned helpers References: <20090211143521.GA18866@lst.de> <1234367339.5481.3.camel@brick> <4993E2CA.1070408@panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <4993E2CA.1070408@panasas.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -=====-==--= --=- -==-- http://arcgraph.de/sr/