From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263518AbTIWT3Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:29:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263517AbTIWT3N (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:29:13 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:23463 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263499AbTIWT2J (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:28:09 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:28:04 +0100 From: Matthew Wilcox To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andreas Schwab , bcrl@kvack.org, tony.luck@intel.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au, ak@suse.de, iod00d@hp.com, peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au, linux-ns83820@kvack.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64 Message-ID: <20030923192804.GG13172@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030923142925.A16490@kvack.org> <20030923115200.1f5b44df.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030923115200.1f5b44df.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:52:00AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:54:50 +0200 > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > Unaligned access are a BUG. > > Wrong, they've been allowed in the kernel networking from day > one and there is nothing that can be done to avoid the cases > for which they occur. 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. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk