From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] include/linux/unaligned/{l,b}e_byteshift.h: Fix usage for compressed kernels Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:55:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20090804155550.3203f5f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090731093107.GA29704@merkur.ravnborg.org> <1249311501-23102-1-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> <1249311501-23102-2-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1249311501-23102-2-git-send-email-albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, hpa@zytor.com, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, alain@knaff.lu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:58:17 +0200 Albin Tonnerre wrote: > When unaligned accesses are required for uncompressing a kernel (such as > for LZO decompression on ARM in a patch that follows), including > causes issues as it brings in a lot of things that are > not available in the decompression environment. > However, those files apparently use nothing from , all > they need is the declaration of types such as u32 or u64, so > should be enough Again, please provide a full description of thes "issues" which a patch addresses so that the patch's importance can be understood by others, thanks.