From 6635669ff2996754da3e8700f51ee5ec3d2db032 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:57:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 9135 b: refs/heads/master c:
 e0487992ce1dd7ae7da9c6aabdb19570bb95432b h: refs/heads/master i:   9133:
 c9002f4953eeed303f3f7a5aea65e673e66c56ad   9131:
 40290365bc05e2321bda0fd5848e52991e3a0561   9127:
 d9b6b9165ee953d7c918f0f8158fa64b9ad311c8   9119:
 81e0e34bea487c1039458a0e425de6f55bfefda6 v: v3

---
 [refs]                                  | 2 +-
 trunk/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 99d981b93176..84851a0c8436 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ff171d8f66a7fe1a000e610e9de11224749f9a22
+refs/heads/master: e0487992ce1dd7ae7da9c6aabdb19570bb95432b
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/trunk/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
index 5fde6f4d6c1e..04bd756efc67 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
+++ b/trunk/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.