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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mwifiex: Use put_unaligned_le32
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On 10/05/2017 12:07 PM, Himanshu Jha wrote:
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>> In this case, the key is CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS. It
>> seems that asm-generic/unaligned.h is set up to include different
>> headers, based on the expected architecture behavior.
>>
> Yes, asm-generic/unaligned.h looks more appopriate and is most generic
> implementation of unaligned accesses and arc specific.
>

Probably the idea is that each ARCH knows exactly what is the best way
to do unaligned access, so common code (like drivers) should include
ARCH-specific asm/unaligned.h only. It will then decide how to do that
and will include asm-generic/unaligned.h itself, if required.

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