Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423188AbWJQJEm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:04:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423189AbWJQJEm (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:04:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56457 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423186AbWJQJEl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:04:41 -0400 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <20061017005025.GF29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <20061017005025.GF29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> To: Al Viro Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] typechecking for get_unaligned/put_unaligned X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:04:00 +0100 Message-ID: <27543.1161075840@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 525 Lines: 14 Al Viro wrote: > * sizeof(*ptr) should be one of 1, 2, 4, 8 Should we give an error if someone tries passing a 1-byte-sized memory location to get/put_unaligned()? I suspect it might be best to reduce to a trivial direct assignment in that case. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/