* Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:

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> Maybe, maybe not. I followed the comment in the original code, saying 
> that we need word-wise access for I/O memory poking. Can I assume 
> across a all archs that __copy_to/from_user will not perform byte 
> accesses if count is 2, 4, or 8? I would be glad if we can kill other 
> couple of line.

those architectures should extend mm/maccess.c accordingly. It's now the 
collector point for "weird kernel-owned memory access functionality".

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> Ingo, if you are close to an editor, please pick those up? Here are 
> some offline things cooking on my side...

yeah, fixed these in my tree.

	Ingo
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