Re: PATCH: usb: descriptor structures have to be packed

Am Mittwoch, 7. Februar 2007 19:47 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
> 
> > In fact if there were macro/function similar to get_unaligned(), but
> > converting from little-/big-endian to native, say, get_unaligned_le(),
> > I'd use it: 
> 
> ...
> 
> > Unfortunately there is no such macro, or did I miss it?
> 
> I have often thought exactly the same thing.  It seems so natural to 
> combine unaligned reads and writes with byte-reordering.  I even brought 
> up the issue on LKML: Why shouldn't there be architecture-dependent 
> versions of
> 
>     get_unaligned_le16(), get_unaligned_le32(), get_unaligned_le64(),
>     get_unaligned_be16(), get_unaligned_be32(), get_unaligned_be64(),
> 
> and the corresponding put_unaligned...() things?
> 
> But for some unclear reason people weren't in favor of it.  And as a 
> result, the kernel is filled with roll-your-own versions of these things.

You should try again. They are needed.

	Regards
		Oliver

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