On Mon, 2019-07-22 at 00:52 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > Each and every 1-byte access is aligned!
The design idea of this is for parsing descriptors. We simply chunk up the describing structure using get_unaligned for everything. The reason is because a lot of these structures come with reserved areas which we may make use of later. If we're using get_unaligned for everything we can simply change a u8 to a u16 in the structure absorbing the reserved padding. With your change now I'd have to chase down every byte access and replace it with get_unaligned instead of simply changing the structure. What's the significant advantage of this change that compensates for the problems the above causes? James
