netdev - RE: alignment faults in 3.6

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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:47:36 +0100
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"Benjamin LaHaise" <bcrl@...ck.org>,
	"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Jon Masters" <jonathan@...masters.org>
Subject: RE: alignment faults in 3.6

> AC was so useless that it has now been reallocated to use by SMAP
> <https://lwn.net/Articles/517251/>.

That is a long time coming!
Wonder when it will appear in any cpus.

How am I going to get root access when I can't get the kernel
to execute code at address 0 any more :-)