On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:58:36PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:38:15AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:53:21AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > >>> I'm not an ARM expert, so I don't know if ARM should use the > > >>> asm-generic implementations, or just use __get_user/__put_user in all > > >>> cases. I've CC'd rmk. > > >> > > >> Why do we have uaccess-unaligned.h ? Normally, these kinds of things > > >> are spawned by architectures which have problems with unaligned accesses, > > >> ARM being one of them, but afaik we've never need this. > > >> > > >> With the kernel-side trapping of unaligned accesses on older hardware, > > >> we've always dealt with the normal accessor faulting. > > >> > > >> From what I can tell in the git history, these unaligned put_user and > > >> get_user have existed all the way back to the dawn of git use. > > >> > > >> Can someone enlighten me why we have them? > > > > I somehow fail at email and dropped Russell from CC on accident. Sigh. > > You're not the first to do that recently. I'm beginning to think it's > something someone has written into email clients to make them do in order > to piss me off. I mean, it's _hard_ to do - you have to manually edit the > recipients list to just drop one person. You configured your mail client to generate a "Mail-Followup-To:" header field which actively asks other mail clients to remove you from replies. So you only get what you ask for... ;) I think the mutt "metoo" variable will change that, but I don't know for sure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
