Fedora kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 patched with stable patch-2.6.17.4-vs2.0.2-rc26.diff

[linux-2.6.git] / include / linux / byteorder / generic.h

diff --git a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
index 5fde6f4..e86e4a9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
+++ b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
  * linux/byteorder_generic.h
  * Generic Byte-reordering support
  *
+ * The "... p" macros, like le64_to_cpup, can be used with pointers
+ * to unaligned data, but there will be a performance penalty on 
+ * some architectures.  Use get_unaligned for unaligned data.
+ *
  * Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org> 19970707
  *    gathered all the good ideas from all asm-foo/byteorder.h into one file,
  *    cleaned them up.
@@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ extern __be32                       htonl(__u32);
 extern __u16                   ntohs(__be16);
 extern __be16                  htons(__u16);
 
-#if defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ >= 2) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
+#if defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__OPTIMIZE__)
 
 #define ___htonl(x) __cpu_to_be32(x)
 #define ___htons(x) __cpu_to_be16(x)