Re: get/put unaligned helpers

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

Harvey Harrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:35 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> I just loked into using the new get/put unaligned helpers.  I must
>> say that I'm really unhappy about the lack of typing there.  We did
>> put all the sparse infrastructure in place to make sure we do have
>> strong typechecking for LE/Be types, but using these helpers defeats
>> that.
>>
>> Can you please make these properly typed?
> 
> Sorry, real life got in the way, I had a series in -mm for a few months
> that did the typing and fixed the argument ordering by providing a
> load/store API and then moving the existing users across, but that got
> delayed while the (aligned) byteswapping patches were made suitable
> for mainline.
> 
> I'll get that series revived shortly.
> 
> Harvey
> 

Speaking of which. When all this is done do you intend to also export
the unaligned.h headers to user-mode just like the aligned Endian helpers?

That could help in a couple of projects, so you have my vote.

Thanks
Boaz