[U-Boot] [PATCHWORK] 71715 -> Not applicable.

[Albert ARIBAUD]

Le 19/11/2010 00:13, Mike Frysinger a écrit :
> On Thursday, November 18, 2010 17:21:49 Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
>> Besides, about half the archs do not use asm-generic/unaligned, and half
>> do
>
> that's because half the arches implemented unaligned.h whilst only thinking of
> themselves.  the other half benefited from my work of thinking of everyone.
>
>> a resubmit on the list will be the occasion
>
> i dont use/care about arm.  i wrote the patch because i wanted to be nice.  if
> you cant be bothered to clean up arm cruft, then feel free to mark the patch
> as "pending due to maintainer laziness".
>
>> for example, to discuss whether all arches should use it.
>
> all arches should use it.  whether the maintainers can be bothered to fix
> their headers is a different question.
> -mike

My question was about the technical merits of the patch: why should all 
arches use it? What does it improve at a performance, maintenability, or 
other technical level ?

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.