Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 Aug 2009 15:55:50 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/6] include/linux/unaligned/{l,b}e_byteshift.h: Fix usage for compressed kernels |
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 16:58:17 +0200 Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> When unaligned accesses are required for uncompressing a kernel (such as > for LZO decompression on ARM in a patch that follows), including > <linux/kernel.h> causes issues as it brings in a lot of things that are > not available in the decompression environment. > However, those files apparently use nothing from <linux/kernel.h>, all > they need is the declaration of types such as u32 or u64, so > <linux/types.h> should be enough
Again, please provide a full description of thes "issues" which a patch addresses so that the patch's importance can be understood by others, thanks.
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