Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

David S. Miller
2003-09-23T19:22:00Z

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:28:04 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

Not only sparc would be effected by this. Using {get,put}_unaligned()
all over the networking would incur a penalty for many platforms, not
just sparc.