From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 17:27:35 +0000 Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 07:59:11 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: > The printk() is rate-controlled and doesn't happen for every unaligned > access. It's average cost can be made as low as we want to, by adjusting > the rate. But if the event is normal, you shouldn't be logging it as if it weren't. Anyone who tries to use IP over appletalk or certain protocols over PPP are going to see your silly messages. As I understand it, you even do this stupid printk for user apps as well, that makes it more than rediculious. I'd be surprised if anyone can find any useful kernel messages on an ia64 system in the dmesg output with all the unaligned access crap there.