From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 19:28:04 +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, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:52:00AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:54:50 +0200 > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > Unaligned access are a BUG. > > Wrong, they've been allowed in the kernel networking from day > one and there is nothing that can be done to avoid the cases > for which they occur. That's not true; they could be avoided by using get_unaligned() and put_unaligned(). You just don't want to because they'd make sparc suck. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk