On Wed, 20 Feb 2019, David Howells wrote:
David Laight David.Laight@ACULAB.COM wrote:
I'd make the 'datalen' field 'unsigned int' at the same time. It will use some of the hole you've made and generate better code on most arches.
Most arches? I though most, if not all, arches had a load-word instruction.
Do you want to send me a patch for that? I'd rather not alter this patch at this point. I can pass the additional patch to James for the next merge window.
Should this first one go into -rc?