Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750867AbVI0D7m (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:59:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750840AbVI0D7m (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:59:42 -0400 Received: from mailhub.hp.com ([192.151.27.10]:36503 "EHLO mailhub.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750837AbVI0D7l (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:59:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix From: Alex Williamson To: Coywolf Qi Hunt Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <2cd57c90050926204022fb22ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <1127764921.6529.60.camel@tdi> <2cd57c90050926204022fb22ca@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: OSLO R&D Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:59:34 -0600 Message-Id: <1127793575.25276.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 18 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 - 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/