linux-kernel - Re: [sparc64] 2.6.18 unaligned acccess in ehci_hub

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Message-Id: <20060920.105659.128612840.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:56:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	simoneau@....uri.edu
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [sparc64] 2.6.18 unaligned acccess in ehci_hub_control

From: Will Simoneau <simoneau@....uri.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:21:23 -0400

> I upgraded from 2.6.17.7 to 2.6.18 today, and in dmesg I have 5 of these
> messages in a row:
> 
> Kernel unaligned access at TPC[100be8c8] ehci_hub_control+0x350/0x680 [ehci_hcd]
> 
> This message wasn't there before... I suppose it is pretty harmless as
> the kernel is supposed to handle unaligned accesses (right?) but this is
> the first time it's happened.

Yes, I've been meaning to send Greg KH patches to fix these
cases, thanks for reminding me about it.
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