From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v3] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:41:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080320194101.GC17884@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206038734.16475.153.camel@johannes.berg>
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:45:34PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Subject: introduce HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT Kconfig symbol
>
> 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
> HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT
> for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures.
> Also add some documentation about alignment and networking, and
> especially one intended use of this symbol.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Sam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-20 14:34 [PATCH/RFC] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 14:39 ` Will Newton
2008-03-20 14:58 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-03-20 18:35 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:39 ` [PATCH/RFC v2] " Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 18:45 ` [PATCH/RFC v3] " Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 19:09 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-03-20 19:12 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 19:41 ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2008-03-20 19:50 ` [PATCH/RFC v4] introduce HAVE_UNALIGNED_ACCESS_SUPPORT " Johannes Berg
2008-03-21 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-20 21:13 ` [PATCH/RFC v2] introduce ARCH_CAN_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " David Miller
2008-03-20 21:21 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-20 21:27 ` David Miller
2008-03-20 22:03 ` John W. Linville
2008-03-20 22:10 ` David Miller
2008-03-25 14:11 ` [PATCH/RFC v5] introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS " Johannes Berg
2008-04-02 10:24 ` Johannes Berg
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