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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:59:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127793575.25276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c90050926204022fb22ca@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:40 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 9/27/05, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> wrote:
> >    The patch below adds an alignment attribute to the buffer used in
> > sys_sendmsg().  This eliminates an unaligned access warning on ia64.
> 
> Is this a warning fix or bug fix?

  Guess I'd have to classify it as a warning fix.  ia64 is fairly
verbose about unaligned accesses by default, so the warning is printed
out runtime.

	Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-27  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-26 20:02 [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix Alex Williamson
2005-09-26 20:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-26 21:28   ` David S. Miller
2005-09-27  3:40 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-09-27  3:59   ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2005-09-27  4:50   ` David S. Miller

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