RE: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64
From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Sep 23 2003 - 13:23:06 EST
> As I understand it, you even do this stupid printk for user apps
> as well, that makes it more than rediculious. I'd be surprised
> if anyone can find any useful kernel messages on an ia64 system
> in the dmesg output with all the unaligned access crap there.
I don't think that it is "normal" for applications to do unaligned
memory access. It means that:
a) the programmer is playing fast and loose with types and/or casts.
b) the end-user is going to be disappointed with the performance.
Looking at a couple of ia64 build servers here I see zero unaligned
access messages in the logs.
-Tony
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