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| author | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-09-23 19:03:21 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> | 2005-09-23 19:03:21 -0400 |
| commit | 536f8098026bde1368bbfcbcb9682a7637b73df2 (patch) | |
| tree | cf83d2e1afa503b6aeba103b55cd1da0af4e7a4c /include/linux/byteorder/generic.h | |
| parent | e86ee6682b649183c11013a98be02f25e9ae399d (diff) | |
| parent | 3fd07d3bf0077dcc0f5a33d2eb1938ea050da8da (diff) | |
Merge /spare/repo/linux-2.6/
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| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/byteorder/generic.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h index 5fde6f4d6c1..04bd756efc6 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. |