Le 19/11/2010 00:13, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
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. -mike
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 ?
Amicalement,