diff --git a/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h b/include/linux/byteorder/generic.h
index 5fde6f4d6c1e3692b0abd52945e48721f428410d..04bd756efc6740e2b16385d4047f2ebb7ec1a86b 100644
--- 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.