linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

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Message-Id: <20061212164504.d6f8a3cb.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:45:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Erik Jacobson <erikj@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, guillaume.thouvenin@...l.net,
	matthltc@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: Some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:54:11 -0600
Erik Jacobson <erikj@....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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