Re: [PATCH] introduce HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS Kconfig symbol

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tuesday 8. April 2008, Johannes Berg wrote:

> In many cases, especially in networking, it can be beneficial to
> know at compile time whether the architecture can do unaligned
> accesses efficiently. This patch introduces a new Kconfig symbol
> 	HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS
> for that purpose and adds it to the powerpc and x86 architectures.
> Also add some documentation about alignment and networking, and
> especially one intended use of this symbol.

Please CC linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for such changes, so it's more likely 
noticed by more arch maintainers, so a list can be compiled what is 
appropriate for the various archs.
The scope of this symbol is IMO a little unclear, is it intended for one-time 
accesses to small object or also for repeated accesses to larger objects?
Anyway, this probably should be set for m68k as well.

bye, Roman
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