Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261536AbVE3HQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 03:16:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261537AbVE3HQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 03:16:16 -0400 Received: from denise.shiny.it ([194.20.232.1]:9900 "EHLO denise.shiny.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261536AbVE3HQO (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2005 03:16:14 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20050529.135257.98862077.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 09:16:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Giuliano Pochini To: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: PATCH : ppp + big-endian = kernel crash Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, phdm@macqel.be Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 690 Lines: 20 On 29-May-2005 David S. Miller wrote: > > And now it will crash when a packet is only 2-byte aligned > when the input packet processing does the first access > to the IP address in the packet header. Accessing 4-byte integers in 2-byte aligned addresses is fine on all "desktop" CISC m68k IIRC (the first m68k was a 16-bit processor so it didn't require 32-bit alignment). I don't know about embedded chips, coldfire and others. -- Giuliano. - 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/