[U-Boot] [PATCHWORK] 71715 -> Not applicable.

Mike Frysinger
2010-11-19T07:13:06Z

On Friday, November 19, 2010 00:59:47 Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Le 19/11/2010 00:13, Mike Frysinger a ?crit :
> > On Thursday, November 18, 2010 17:21:49 Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> >> Besides, about half the archs do not use asm-generic/unaligned, and half
> >> do
> >
> > that's because half the arches implemented unaligned.h whilst only
> > thinking of themselves. the other half benefited from my work of
> > thinking of everyone.
> >
> >> a resubmit on the list will be the occasion
> >
> > i dont use/care about arm. i wrote the patch because i wanted to be
> > nice. if you cant be bothered to clean up arm cruft, then feel free to
> > mark the patch as "pending due to maintainer laziness".
> >
> >> for example, to discuss whether all arches should use it.
> >
> > all arches should use it. whether the maintainers can be bothered to fix
> > their headers is a different question.
>
> My question was about the technical merits of the patch: why should all
> arches use it? What does it improve at a performance, maintenability, or
> other technical level ?

obviously maintenance is improved since only one header needs to be maintained
and it isnt an arm one
-mike
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