Re: [PATCH] sys_sendmsg() alignment bug fix

[David S. Miller]

From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:40:38 +0800

> 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?

It doesn't generate a warning, but it does generate totally
unnecessary unaligned access traps on RISC systems.
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