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authorEd L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>2005-09-20 06:57:36 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-09-20 06:57:36 +0400
commite0487992ce1dd7ae7da9c6aabdb19570bb95432b (patch)
treea2d748df1ae99d8f9e6c8e6055e9ef9a3153d1cf /include/linux/byteorder
parentff171d8f66a7fe1a000e610e9de11224749f9a22 (diff)
downloadlinux-e0487992ce1dd7ae7da9c6aabdb19570bb95432b.tar.xz
[BYTEORDER]: Document alignment and byteorder macros
This patch comments the fact that although passing le64_to_cpup et al. is within the intended use of the byteorder macros, using get_unaligned is the recommended way to go. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
index 5fde6f4d6c1e..04bd756efc67 100644
--- a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
+++ b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
* linux/byteorder_generic.h
* Generic Byte-reordering support
*
+ * The "... p" macros, like le64_to_cpup, can be used with pointers
+ * to unaligned data, but there will be a performance penalty on
+ * some architectures. Use get_unaligned for unaligned data.
+ *
* Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> 19970707
* gathered all the good ideas from all asm-foo/byteorder.h into one file,
* cleaned them up.