Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:45:04 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Erik Jacobson <erikj@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net,
       matthltc@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:11 -0600
Erik Jacobson <erikj@sgi.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrew.
> 
> There was some discussion on this patch but I believe we've agreed
> on the first version I sent.  This was ACKed by Matt Helsley.
> 
> Would you consider taking this in to -mm?
> 
> I've included my original patch email at the bottom.
> 

I'm a bit late to the party.

>  cn_proc.c |   94 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------

But it's rather a lot of churn for such a thing.  Did you consider simply using
put_unaligned() against the specific offending field(s)?

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