Re: NS83820 2.6.0-test5 driver seems unstable on IA64

[David S. Miller]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:28:04 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That's not true; they could be avoided by using get_unaligned() and
> put_unaligned().  You just don't want to because they'd make sparc suck.

Not only sparc would be effected by this.  Using {get,put}_unaligned()
all over the networking would incur a penalty for many platforms, not
just sparc.

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