Re: [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix

From: Alex Williamson
Date: Mon Sep 26 2005 - 23:18:25 EST


On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:40 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 9/27/05, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > The patch below adds an alignment attribute to the buffer used in
> > sys_sendmsg(). This eliminates an unaligned access warning on ia64.
>
> Is this a warning fix or bug fix?

Guess I'd have to classify it as a warning fix. ia64 is fairly
verbose about unaligned accesses by default, so the warning is printed
out runtime.

Alex

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