From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:59:34 -0600 Message-ID: <1127793575.25276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1127764921.6529.60.camel@tdi> <2cd57c90050926204022fb22ca@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Coywolf Qi Hunt In-Reply-To: <2cd57c90050926204022fb22ca@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:40 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 9/27/05, Alex Williamson 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