Re: [ACPI] [PATCH] `unaligned access' in acpiget_root_bridge_busnr()

[Alex Williamson]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:37 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> In drivers/acpi/glue.c the address of an integer is cast to the
> address of an unsigned long.  This breaks on systems where a long is
> larger than an int --- for a start the int can be misaligned; for a
> second the assignment through the pointer will overwrite part of the
> next variable.
> 

   FWIW, I posted a nearly identical patch back at the end of September:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=acpi4linux&m=112775252600038

No word of it getting anywhere.  Thanks,

	Alex

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