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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@starflyer.(none)> | 2005-09-25 13:14:45 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> | 2005-09-25 13:14:45 +1000 |
| commit | 4e0c1159d83a658d1ffba5bc3442f4ec4cadb436 (patch) | |
| tree | 36a5079ba7ba9b9e0f2f633356705b980940eac4 /include/linux/byteorder | |
| parent | ea98a92ff18c03bf7f4d21536986cbbcb4c10cd9 (diff) | |
| parent | ef6bd6eb90ad72ee8ee7ba8b271f27102e9a90c1 (diff) | |
update from upstream
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/byteorder')
| -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 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. |