Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263457AbTIWTOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262201AbTIWTKa (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:10:30 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:25521 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263412AbTIWTJt (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Sep 2003 15:09:49 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: 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 References: <20030923142925.A16490@kvack.org> <20030923115200.1f5b44df.davem@redhat.com> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: I have the power to HALT PRODUCTION on all TEENAGE SEX COMEDIES!! Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:09:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030923115200.1f5b44df.davem@redhat.com> (David S. Miller's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:52:00 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 995 Lines: 31 "David S. Miller" writes: > 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. The compiler is allowed to take advantage that there are no unaligned accesses. You need to use compiler extensions (like attribute packed) to stop it from doing this. > Stop spreading fud. Nothing like this. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/