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From: Igor Mitsyanko <igor.mitsyanko.os@quantenna.com>
To: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@gmail.com>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	amitkarwar@gmail.com, nishants@marvell.com, gbhat@marvell.com,
	huxm@marvell.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Use put_unaligned_le32
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 14:54:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <357bb728-f324-5c9f-c92c-08c57f22ce75@quantenna.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171005190730.GA8043@himanshu-Vostro-3559>

On 10/05/2017 12:07 PM, Himanshu Jha wrote:
>>
>> In this case, the key is CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. It
>> seems that asm-generic/unaligned.h is set up to include different
>> headers, based on the expected architecture behavior.
>>
> Yes, asm-generic/unaligned.h looks more appopriate and is most generic
> implementation of unaligned accesses and  arc specific.
> 

Probably the idea is that each ARCH knows exactly what is the best way 
to do unaligned access, so common code (like drivers) should include 
ARCH-specific asm/unaligned.h only. It will then decide how to do that 
and will include asm-generic/unaligned.h itself, if required.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-05 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-04 18:28 [PATCH] mwifiex: Use put_unaligned_le32 Himanshu Jha
2017-10-05  7:23 ` Kalle Valo
2017-10-05  8:34   ` Himanshu Jha
2017-10-05  8:41     ` Kalle Valo
2017-10-05 15:22       ` Himanshu Jha
2017-10-05 18:02         ` Brian Norris
2017-10-05 19:07           ` Himanshu Jha
2017-10-05 21:54             ` Igor Mitsyanko [this message]
2017-10-06 13:31             ` Kalle Valo
2017-10-07  3:31 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-07  5:17 ` kbuild test robot

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