Re: get/put unaligned helpers

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 13:43:36 EST


Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> When all this is done do you intend to also export
> the unaligned.h headers to user-mode just like the aligned Endian helpers?

Neither the aligned nor unaligned endian conversion helpers are
interfaces between kernel and userland, hence should not be exported.
Export of the aligned ones is a mistake of the past. IIRC there were
different opinions on whether this mistake should be corrected; it seems
it won't.
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