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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


  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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