Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

David S. Miller
2003-09-23T06:35:38Z

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:36:29 -0400
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> wrote:

> Denied. Dave, please explain.

Why should I have anything to explain? :-)

The fact that ia64 is doing a printk for an unaligned kernel
load or store is what you should be asking questions about :)

It's one thing if ia64 keeps track of unaligned accesses as
a counter statistic, but emitting a printk for everyone is
pretty anti-social.

Unaligned accesses in the kernel are perfectly normal, and are
absolutely going to happen in various kinds of networking setups.