From: Micah Parrish <micah.parrish@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: user-space unaligned accesses
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:22:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106608687732639@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106562414203331@msgid-missing>
>The ia64 architecture does a tty_write
>on a userspace unaligned access. Not only is this extremenly annoying,
>it's also very broken since the tty may well be suspended etc etc.
>Doing a printk on such an access by default is very broken already,
>lets not make it worse
I too see no reason to do a tty_write here. Most other error messages
of the same level (KERN_WARNING) do not do a tty_write, and syslogd can
be configured to write KERN_WARNING messages to the console or anywhere
else if you care. Smells like old debug code, and looks messy to the
end user.
-micah.parrish@hp.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-11 23:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 14:42 user-space unaligned accesses Bjorn Helgaas
2003-10-08 21:46 ` Grant Grundler
2003-10-08 22:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-10-08 23:36 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-09 13:53 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2003-10-11 23:22 ` Micah Parrish [this message]
2003-10-13 23:56 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-13 23:59 ` Duraid Madina
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